Monte Dwyer was born in Newcastle, Australia, on the 21st July 1958, and grew up in and around Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley, so he can swim and he can drink.

A conventional education was attempted, but eventually aborted in 5th form (year 11) in favour of earning a quid and exploring the usual teenage rites.

He trained as a Psychiatric Nurse (Morisset, NSW) before setting off on a never-ending search for something.

Since that time he has occupied himself variously as a professional fisherman, fashion model, foreign aid worker and failed property developer (among other pursuits he won’t admit to here), and arrived at the conclusion that work is over-rated, it’s an artist’s life for him.

In the late-eighties he trained in Theatre Arts (Darwin, NT) under Gunduz Kalic (ex-E15 co-director, UK) and somehow ended up on television presenting the weather for the local ABC TV station. His antics were so outrageous that he was noticed by Channel 9 and given the same gig on their national breakfast show, Today, a role he performed from 1991 until he left in 2002 to continue his search for something.

Throughout his career in the media he has also been a produced playwright, a radio announcer, a newspaper columnist, an author, a musician and a sometime journalist.

He is still looking for something.

Media Credits & Details

Television: ABC TV Darwin, Evening News, Weather Presenter 1988-1990

TCN 9 Today Show, Weather presenter 1991 - 2002

TEN 10 Let’s Do It, Host 2002

ATN 7 Sunrise, presenter, Bush Postcards, 2008-09

Radio: ABC FM Darwin, Breakfast, Drive & Afternoons 1989-1990

Macquarie Southern Cross, Across Australia, Roving Reporter 2007

Print: NT News, Columnist, 1989-1990

Video: Monte Dwyer’s Flying Cirrus, ABC Production, 1990

Books: Slapped by an Angel, co-authored with a freeloader

& published by Monyer 2006 & distributed nationally by Dennis Jones 2007

Red in the Centre, published by Monyer

& distributed nationally by Dennis Jones 2008

Plays: I Would’ve Written, workshopped by ANPC

(Australian National Playwrights Conference) 1989

Son, workshopped and performed by ANPC 1990,

produced by Territory North, 1989

Tadpoles, performed by ABC Radio, 1990

Music: Self Titled EP, independent release, 2003

Red in the Centre, independent release, 2008

Buy something now? Go on – we’ll both feel better.