Adam Broinowski is a writer, performer and researcher based in Melbourne, intermittently living and working in Japan since 1984. He studied law, Japanese and performance at Monash University (BA, 1992), and studied on a Monbusho scholarship at Shizuoka University (1993) in his honours year. For over a decade, Adam worked as a professional theatre and filmmaker, making his own productions, touring with leading Australian theatre companies, and contributing media-content including the award-winning documentary Hell Bento! (Tetrapod, 1995). While a research fellow at the University of Tokyo, Department of Cultural Representation (2003-2005), he was a core performer with a Tokyo based Japanese experimental theatre company. He received numerous grants including from Asialink, the Australia Council, the Japan Foundation, Arts Victoria, Arts NSW, Monbukagakusho, and a Melbourne Research Scholarship.

Selected journal and book chapters
2011. Disaster in Japan: Blogs from the Underground, Meanjin,70.
2011. Journey to the core of the Dream Regime project, Transcultural. Transnational. Transformation. Seeing, writing, and reading performance across cultures, ADSA special edition, Melbourne: Monash University Press.
2010. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Bye Bye the New Primitive. In: A. Lavender and J. Harvie (eds.) Making Contemporary Theatre: International rehearsal processes, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2010. Otaku: resistance and conformity. In/Stead, issue 3 (Expositions & Revelations). [Online]. Available at: http://www.doubledialogues.com/in_stead/in_stead_iss03/Broinowski.html [Accessed: 31 August 2011].
2009. Vivisection Vision: performing the humanimal. In: Cheryl Stock (ed.) Dance Dialogues: Conversations Across Cultures, Artforms and Practices. Refereed Proceedings of the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, Brisbane, Australia 13 – 18 July 200, Published by: Australian Dance Council—Ausdance Inc. and Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Creative Industries. [Online]. Available at: http://www.ausdance.org.au/resources/publications/dance-dialogues/mind-body-connections.html#broinowski [Accessed 1 September 2011].
2009. A rebellion of being / Hijikata Tatsumi and Ankoku Butoh, Some/things Art Journal, 001.
2008. The Performance of War Images. In: Ian Maxwell (ed.) Being There: After. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA). [Online]. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2487 [Accessed: 31 August 2011]
2006. Yaneura – The Attic. Also translator), New Voices, 1, pp. 56–61.
2002. Avant-Garde Japanese Theatre. Japan Foundation Quarterly Journal, April-June.

Selected articles and reviews
2010. 'TS2: Intercepting Art from Waste', Art Monthly Australia, Jan-March 2010 / 'TS2' Catalogue Essay Dec. 2009.
2009. Wort und Fleisch', Screening the Past, issue 26.
2009. Black River. Senses of Cinema, issue 50.
2005-2008. RealTime reviews - Melbourne International Arts Festivals (MIAF).
2009-2005. ADSA book reviews.