Susie Dee

Creator, Director, Actor

Susie Dee (she/her) has worked extensively in theatre as a performer, devisor and director both in Australia and overseas for the past forty years.

Malthouse Theatre: Lilly and May; Director for Truth and normal.suburban.planetary.meltdown.; Co-Creator & Director for F**k Christmas; and Co-Director & Performer for Caravan (with Melbourne Festival). Other Theatre: Director for My Sister Jill (Melbourne Theatre Company); Animal (Theatre Works / Dark Mofo); Anthem (Performing Lines/Melbourne, Sydney & Perth Festival); RUNT (fortyfivedownstairs / La Boite Theatre / Sydney Opera House); The Amateurs and Wittenoom (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); and Fuck Fabulous, Fart Fabulous, Queen Kong and the Homosapiens and The Rainbow Tree (Fat Fruit). Susie has long history of directing plays by Patricia Cornelius, including Bad Boy, SHIT and Love, which toured to Venice Biennale Theatre Festival.

Susie has won numerous Green Room Awards for directing, including most recently for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production for My Sister Jill. She was a recipient of the Ewa Czajor Memorial Award for female directors and in 2022, she received the prestigious Australia Council Award for Theatre.

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Headshot by Ponch Hawkes