Merlynn Tong

Merlynn Tong is a playwright, screenwriter and an actor. Her work Golden Blood, mounted by Griffin Theatre in 2022, will be staged by Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company in 2024. Some of her other playwriting credits include Antigone (adaptation, Queensland Theatre & Mercury Theatre, UK), Legends [of the Golden Arches] (co-writer, co-director, Performing Lines WA), Good Grief (Queensland Theatre), Caesar (co-writer, La Boite Theatre), Blue Bones (Playlab Productions), Come to Where I am (Critical Stages Touring & Paines Plough Theatre Company, UK), SKIN (Dear Australia, Playwriting Australia) and Ma Ma Ma Mad (Wax Lyrical). She was a resident writer at La Boite Theatre in 2022 and the 2020 resident writer at Melbourne Theatre Company.