Grace Wilson
Grace Wilson is a playwright hailing from Gimuy country, currently residing in Meanjin.
Working as an actor at the Young Company Theatre in Gimuy, Grace discovered a proficiency for devised works for young people that had her performing at Cairns Festival and Cairns Children’s Festival. Her playwriting credits include MY NAME IS TOMMY, GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON, PALLAS SISTER RISING (theatrePUNKco), CALIFORNIA ORANGE STELLAR (KXT, Javeenbah Theatre Company), DOGHOLE (Vena Cava Productions, Underground Theatre Company, Sydney University Dramatic Society), PONY CLUB (Observatory Theatre) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (Queensland University of Technology).
In 2023, Grace completed her Fishbowl Residency with Queensland Writers Centre, and was commissioned by Observatory Theatre and Queensland University of Technology. At 16, her debut work MY NAME IS TOMMY, was a finalist in the Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award in 2021.
In 2022, she wrote GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON, which won the Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award. GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON would go on to be a finalist in Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Griffin Theatre Company’s Griffin Award, Queensland Theatre’s Premier’s Drama Award and the Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable award. Most recently, DOGHOLE was voted in the top three in TheatreHaus’s Peoples Choice Awards in 2023 and won Underground’s Best Mainstage award for 2024, receiving rave reviews from ATYP, Drama Dispatch, Honi Soit and Westender.
Grace has been actively working on her craft, working with companies including ATYP, La Boite, Matriark Theatre and Playlab in order to push herself further. She has also received several accolades for her pitches for commissions, being longlisted for the Griffin Award 2024, ATYP’s Foundation Commission and was a finalist for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize.
Grace is excited and eager to see where her writing takes her, and is ready for new challenges.