Marni Mount

Marni Mount (she/they) is a director, actor, and dramaturg living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Focusing on new Australian writing for the stage and screen, she makes work that is formally inventive, visually imaginative, and unafraid to take on big ideas. 

Malthouse Theatre: Assistant Director for The Birds Other Theatre: Director for POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (Lightning Jar Theatre); MinusOneSister (Double Bluff); The Camel (Flick Flick City); and Trophy Boys (The Maybe Pile/Soft Tread Enterprises) which received four Green Room Award Nominations including for Best Independent Production and Best Director. Associate Director for Werewolf (Arts Centre Melbourne, dir. Gary Abrahams); Assistant Director for Hamlet (Melbourne Shakespeare Company, dir. Iain Sinclair), The Wolves (VCA, dir. Yoni Prior) The Spook (VCA, dir. Daniela Farinacci).

Marni is a graduate of the Australian National University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She was the 2024 Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre Hansen Graduate Director and is a part of the 2025 Melbourne Theatre Company MinterEllison Future Directors Initiative.

Marni Mount was part of the Malthouse Artist Development Program in 2025, specialising in directing. 

Instagram: @marni.mount 

Headshot by Hugh Stewart