Susie Dee

Creator, Director, Actor

Susie Dee (she/her) has worked extensively in theatre as a performer, devisor and director both in Australia and overseas for the past forty years. Malthouse Theatre credits include Normal Suburban Planetary Meltdown as director and Caravan (with Melbourne Festival) as co-director and performer. Most recently Susie directed My Sister Jill (Melbourne Theatre Company) which won the Greenroom Awards for Outstanding Production and Directing. She has a long history of directing plays by Patricia Cornelius, SHIT and Love, which toured to the Venice Biennale Theatre Festival. Other directing highlights include Animal (Theatreworks & Dark Mofo) Anthem, (Performing Lines/Melbourne, Sydney & Perth Festivals), RUNT (fortyfivedownstairs, La Boite Theatre and Sydney Opera House) The Amateurs and Witttenoom (Red Stitch Actors Theatre). Susie is a frequent collaborator with Fat Fruit having worked on Fuck Fabulous, Fart Fabulous, Queen Kong and the Homosapiens and The Rainbow Tree. Susie has won numerous Green Room Awards for directing, was a recipient of the Ewa Czajor Memorial Award for female directors and in 2022 she received the prestigious Australia Council Award for Theatre.