about me
Grace Wilson is an award-winning playwright living between Yidinji and Gadigal country, studying a Master of Fine Arts (Dramatic Writing) at NIDA after completing her Bachelor of Humanities (Western Civilisation) at The University of Queensland. A driven and collaborative writer, she utilises comedy and play to explore and question intimate facets of human connection and start complex conversations with an authentic regional Australian charm.
Her debut play MY NAME IS TOMMY was the runner-up for the Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights’ Award. Her next work GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON won the Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights’ Award and has been a finalist for the Griffin Award, Patrick White Playwrights’ Award and Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. Her one woman show GIA OPHELIA was the winner of Sydney Fringe’s Emerging Artist Awards and was a finalist for Best in Theatre. Her most recent play, BOGQUEEN, was developed with Playlab and was the runner-up of the Australian Theatre Festival’s NYC New Play Award. Grace has been nominated for a Queensland Literary Award and has been invited to speak at the National Young Writers Festival.
Her training credits include ATYP’s Fresh Ink Mentoring and National Studio, La Boite Assembly and Queensland Theatre’s Young Writer’s ensemble and has been an artist in residence at Bundanon and Queensland Writers Centre.
Grace is currently under commission with Observatory Theatre and is a residential fellow at Varuna Writers House, supported by the Roderick Centre JCU. You’ll find her attempting yoga or complaining about how bad Sydney coffee is to someone who couldn’t care less.
REVIEWS
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REVIEWS ✳︎
Wilson’s voice is both fearless and deeply compassionate, marking her as an exciting force in Australian theatre. - Australian Theatre Festival
Grace Wilson’s writing is as delightfully whimsical as it is moving – effortlessly bouncing from one pithy quip to another as the rollercoaster of highs and lows unfolds on stage — Australian Arts Review
Wilson’s writing is both witty and cutting, capturing the pressures of being a woman and an artist and the impossible choices between career and domesticity, passion and expectation — City Hub
Wilson has crafted an irresistible, barrelling, monologue style, packed with quick jokes – some of which are pleasingly sharp… —Cassie Tongue
Grace Wilson’s writing perfectly captures the distraught, personal moments of ‘Gia’s’ life that feels both singular to her and universal to many women in the room — Stage Door Podcast
Grace Wilson’s writing is naturalistic and relatable, encouraging audiences to relate to Gia as she shares her story. The work feels both intellectually engaged and emotionally resonant — State of The Arts
With wit, verbal dexterity, and gimlet-eyed perception, Wilson dissects society’s — and the theatre world’s — hypocrisy and double standards regarding sexism and ageism — What’sOn Sydney