Bridget Balodis

For Malthouse, Bridget was Assistant Director on the large-scale immersive work, Because The Night  and has directed The Lockdown Monologues (digital production) and Hello, World! (digital production). Her other recent directing credits include HYDRA (Darebin Arts), She is Vigilante (Theatre Works), MORAL PANIC (Darebin Arts), Desert, 6.29pm (Red Stitch and Wuhzen Theatre Festival, China), GROUND CONTROL (Next Wave and Brisbane Festival), Jurassica (Red Stitch and Critical Stages) and Kids Killing Kids (Next Wave).  

Bridget was Assistant Director on The Dream (Bell Shakespeare) and The Histrionic (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company), Besen Family Artist Program Placement for Direction (2012). In 2015 and 2016 she lived in New York, where she worked with downtown legends Elevator Repair Service and for Wooster Group alumna, Anna Kohler.  

She was a part of the inaugural Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women Director’s program in 2014 and has been the recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Award, Mike Walsh Fellowship and Dame Joan Sutherland Award.