Artists

Grace Wilson is an emerging playwright living on Gadigal country, studying a Master of Fine Arts (Dramatic Writing) at NIDA.

At the age of 17, she was shortlisted for the Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights’ Award with her play MY NAME IS TOMMY and won the award in the following year with her work, GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON.

Grace has gone on to be a finalist in several major writing awards including Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwright’s Award, Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Griffin Award, Martin-Lysicrates Prize, Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable and Sydney Fringe’s Best in Theatre Award, all of which Grace is the youngest in history to be on the list. She has been published by Jacaranda Journal, Regional Arts Australia, Queensland Writers’ Centre, ATAR Notes Australia, highly commended for the ABC Heywire Competition and longlisted for the Griffin Award 2024, Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2026 and the ATYP Foundation Commission.

In Residence at Bundanon

Grace will develop her play, GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON which was the winner of the 2022 Queensland Theatre Young Playwrights Award, finalist for Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Griffin Award, Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable, Varuna Underrepresneted Writers Fellowship, shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award and longlisted for Red Stitch INK.