Mandy Salomon grew up in Adelaide. She studied Drama and Visual Arts at Flinders University. Her earliest performances were at The Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. She was a foundation member of Radio 5MMM, setting up arts and drama
programmes for the station.
In the eighties Salomon travelled and worked as a journalist in London. Returning to Australia she moved to Sydney where she wrote and performed stand-up comedy. Often working in partnership with Larry Buttrose, she ran the Sydney nightclub 'The Gap' which produced and presented comic shows and cabaret. Some of her work from this time is published in Paté Faux Pas. The shows she produced included the hit series 'Characters' that showcased for the first time the work of Australia's women comedians, including Wendy Harmer, Sue Ingleton and Maryanne Fahey. This spilled over into television and radio work.
Salomon hosted shows on ABC TV, including The Edge of the Wedge, performed on the Big Gig, and wrote for Full Frontal and Tonight Live with Steve Vizard. Publications at this time included a weekly column 'Laughing at Ourselves' for the Sunday Telegraph, feature articles in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin and reviews for TIME Australia as well as the chapter, 'Movers and Shakers', for 'That Place Called New South Wales', (ed John Peel, 1984).
In 1990 Salomon moved to Melbourne, where she married and had two children. She wrote columns for the Melbourne Weekly (1993-1994), and Australia Post (1993-1995), ran a radio column on 3LO, and wrote for Radio National's Life Matters.
In 1995 Salomon began film studies at the Australian Film and Television School and in 1996 was the recipient of Film Victoria's Independent Filmmakers' Fund, which enabled her to write and direct the whimsical docu-soap 'The Bidding Game' that chronicles the buying and selling of houses from the real estate agent's point of view. This was screened on SBS in 1997. Salomon went on to run Red House Productions, making documentary
films for business and television. She was a host and program maker on ABC TV's The Arts Show in 2000.
In 2003 Mandy began work in academia, specifically researching new media and digital technologies.
