Tom Gleisner (born 1962) is an Australian director, producer, writer, comedian, occasional actor and author. He was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.
A law student in Melbourne University in 1983 when he began working with Santo Cilauro and Rob Sitch, Gleisner wrote and performed in the 1985 Melbourne University Revue Too Cool for Sandals, and was credited as a writer on The D-Generation (1986-1987) but not as a regular performe...
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Tom Gleisner (born 1962) is an Australian director, producer, writer, comedian, occasional actor and author. He was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.
A law student in Melbourne University in 1983 when he began working with Santo Cilauro and Rob Sitch, Gleisner wrote and performed in the 1985 Melbourne University Revue Too Cool for Sandals, and was credited as a writer on The D-Generation (1986-1987) but not as a regular performer. He did, however, turn up on numerous occasions as a guest star (he featured more prominently in the second season, to fill in for Rob Sitch who was juggling writing/performing for the show with his studies), and on the album The Satanic Sketches. Gleisner would go on to perform in the D-Gen’s late-eighties Triple M radio show (and its spin-off album The Breakfast Tapes), and then starred in, and wrote for, ABC’s The Late Show (1992-1993). He is remembered in The Late Show as the newsreader of Late Show News, the co-host of Countdown...
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