Toby Schmitz
@tobyschmitz.bsky.social
Go Crow.
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 !! "I'd give this stunning show a galaxy of stars if I could" - SMH
The first reviews are in for Simon Phillips, Nick Schlieper and @tobyschmitz.bsky.social's adaptation of Max Porter's GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS! 🐦⬛
Read: www.smh.com.au/culture/live...
The first reviews are in for Simon Phillips, Nick Schlieper and @tobyschmitz.bsky.social's adaptation of Max Porter's GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS! 🐦⬛
Read: www.smh.com.au/culture/live...
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Go Crow.
Reposted by Toby Schmitz
@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir.
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Toby Schmitz: The play's the thing
In Conversation · Episode
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July 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir.
🎧 bit.ly/InCon200s
🎧 bit.ly/InCon200s
Thrilled! 🚢✨
Well I’m absolutely loving this delicious murder/mystery/slasher novel that’s very funny and so well written. Great job @tobyschmitz.bsky.social #booksky #theempressmurders
July 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Thrilled! 🚢✨
In trying not to rubberneck a current race to the bottom I am reminded of a Martin Amis phrase:
‘This is species shame.’
‘This is species shame.’
June 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In trying not to rubberneck a current race to the bottom I am reminded of a Martin Amis phrase:
‘This is species shame.’
‘This is species shame.’
‘The Empress Murders is a violent book: nobody here is dispatched with a nip of arsenic in their camomile tea.’
#TheEmpressMurders
#TheEmpressMurders
May 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
‘The Empress Murders is a violent book: nobody here is dispatched with a nip of arsenic in their camomile tea.’
#TheEmpressMurders
#TheEmpressMurders
‘Brilliant, bonkers and bloody - The Empress Murders is what you get when you let a mischievous thespian schooled in Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and Agatha Christie loose on the crime genre.’
#TheEmpressMurders
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
#TheEmpressMurders
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Prepare to be discombobulated by this bonkers crime caper
Australian actor and playwright Toby Schmitz has made an outlandish excursion into the crime genre.
www.smh.com.au
May 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
‘Brilliant, bonkers and bloody - The Empress Murders is what you get when you let a mischievous thespian schooled in Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and Agatha Christie loose on the crime genre.’
#TheEmpressMurders
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
#TheEmpressMurders
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Melbourne cats: I’m going to be talking about my debut novel at Readings in Carlton this Thursday night at 6pm (and signing books if that floats your boat.) Do come. @ReadingsBooks #TheEmpressMurders 🚢🏴☠️ readings.com.au/events/toby-sc…
https://readings.com.au/events/toby-sc…
May 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Melbourne cats: I’m going to be talking about my debut novel at Readings in Carlton this Thursday night at 6pm (and signing books if that floats your boat.) Do come. @ReadingsBooks #TheEmpressMurders 🚢🏴☠️ readings.com.au/events/toby-sc…
You’ve made my day.
Thank you, Molly.
Welcome aboard.
Thank you, Molly.
Welcome aboard.
Wow. Just devoured this in all its stunning ferocity of wit. Glorious tone, the kind of book where you can greedily appreciate the prose even as you are swept along in the increasing wild plot. Bravo @tobyschmitz.bsky.social !!!#TheEmpressMurders
May 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You’ve made my day.
Thank you, Molly.
Welcome aboard.
Thank you, Molly.
Welcome aboard.
Ahoy, blue sky miners.
My book is coming out soon.
It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways…
🚢
You can pre-order it here:
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
#TheEmpressMurders
My book is coming out soon.
It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways…
🚢
You can pre-order it here:
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
#TheEmpressMurders
April 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Ahoy, blue sky miners.
My book is coming out soon.
It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways…
🚢
You can pre-order it here:
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
#TheEmpressMurders
My book is coming out soon.
It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways…
🚢
You can pre-order it here:
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
#TheEmpressMurders
‘To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.’
(Edward Gibbon)
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
(Edward Gibbon)
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
February 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
‘To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.’
(Edward Gibbon)
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
(Edward Gibbon)
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
A gentle reminder that the ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ soundtrack is a gift of gentle brilliance. A balm.
February 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
A gentle reminder that the ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ soundtrack is a gift of gentle brilliance. A balm.
January 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Skeleton Crew Episode I:
Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level.
One of those school jackets, please, Santa?
Out-goons Goonies.
I’m so in.
Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level.
One of those school jackets, please, Santa?
Out-goons Goonies.
I’m so in.
December 6, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Skeleton Crew Episode I:
Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level.
One of those school jackets, please, Santa?
Out-goons Goonies.
I’m so in.
Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level.
One of those school jackets, please, Santa?
Out-goons Goonies.
I’m so in.
Agent emails for ‘MAN’ in car commercial.
Do you drive?
No.
All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow?
No.
All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again.
Do you drive?
No.
All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow?
No.
All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again.
December 3, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Agent emails for ‘MAN’ in car commercial.
Do you drive?
No.
All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow?
No.
All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again.
Do you drive?
No.
All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow?
No.
All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again.
Sydney likes to forget it rains. River-streets
Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians
Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water
Pelting straight down, feining surprise.
Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians
Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water
Pelting straight down, feining surprise.
December 2, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Sydney likes to forget it rains. River-streets
Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians
Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water
Pelting straight down, feining surprise.
Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians
Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water
Pelting straight down, feining surprise.