Susie Dee

I have worked extensively in theatre as a performer, devisor and director in Australia and overseas for the past forty years. I have been the Artistic Director of three theatre companies: Melbourne Workers Theatre (MWT), Union House Theatre (UHT) and Institute Of Complex Entertainment (ICE), whose projects went on to win various awards and received many accolades for their ground-breaking site-specific work.

In 2011, I was the recipient of the Australia Council residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (for female director). I have directed theatrical works for Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Red Stitch Theatre and many independent theatre companies and have been nominated and won numerous awards. The 2016 production, Animal won five Green Room Awards, including Best Director. In 2017 and I was nominated for three Awards for Direction - Looking Glass, Big Heart and a Helpmann Award, Best Director nomination for SHIT. In 2019 I was invited to be a guest ‘Maestra’ at the 2019 Venice Biennale Theatre Festival, where we presented Cornelius’s SHIT and Love. I then went on to direct Anthem (Playhouse, Arts Centre) for the 2019 Melbourne International Arts Festival and the 2020 Sydney and Perth Festivals. In 2020/21 I co- directed my first feature film of SHIT.

I often work with Fat Fruit: Fuck Fabulous, Fart Fabulous, Queen Kong and the Homosapiens and recently Fuck Christmas (Malthouse Theatre). In 2022 I received the prestigious Australia Council Award for Theatre. In 2024 I received the Green Room Award for ‘Best Director’ and most ‘Outstanding Production’ for My Sister Jill by Patricia Cornelius (Melbourne Theatre Company). In 2025 I directed another Cornelius work-TRUTH (Malthouse Theatre), two works at HotHouse Theatre (Rodeo Clown and I’M WITH HER) and Fair Punishment (Browns Mart Theatre)