Susie Dee

She has worked extensively in theatre as a performer, devisor and director in Australia and overseas for the past forty years. She has 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 receive many accolades for their ground-breaking site-specific work. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Australia Council residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (for female directors). She has directed theatrical works for Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Red Stitch Theatre and many independent theatre companies, and has been nominated for and won numerous awards. The 2016 production Animal won five Green Room Awards, including Best Director. In 2017, she was nominated for three awards for direction for Looking Glass and Big Heart, and received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Director for SHIT. In 2019, she was invited to be a guest ‘Maestra’ at the 2019 Venice Biennale Theatre Festival, where she presented Cornelius’s SHIT and Love. She 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, she co-directed her first feature film, SHIT. She often works with Fat Fruit on productions including Fuck Fabulous, Fart Fabulous, Queen Kong and The Homosapiens, as well as the more recent Fuck Christmas (Malthouse Theatre). In 2022, she received the prestigious Australia Council Award for Theatre. In 2024, she received the Green Room Award for ‘Best Director’ and ‘Outstanding Production’ for My Sister Jill by Patricia Cornelius (Melbourne Theatre Company). In 2025, she directed another Cornelius work, TRUTH (Malthouse Theatre), as well as two works at HotHouse Theatre, Rodeo Clown and I’M WITH HER, and Fair Punishment (Browns Mart Theatre).