keep it queer
new writing
I’m a theatre director, sometimes dramaturg and educator. I work with new writing and have presented work all over australia and internationally.
In the last ten years I have only worked with new writing, by which I mean collaborating with playwrights at any stage of their process, from inital ideas to presenting their play for the first time.
queer, intersectional theatre
my work encompasses a variety of genres and forms, from plays to immersive work and games, but it always has at its centre the voices and experiences of the underrepresented: queer and trans folks, people of colour and artists with disabilities.
i love weird plays so if you have one you were thinking of getting in touch about, please do
my practice emphasises marginalised voices. i want to make theatre that is complex, fun and rule-fucking
EXPLORE
I’m currently researching and reading on queered narratives. I’m looking at dramaturgical strategies that queer writers from marginalised genders use to express their lived experiences; narratives that fail, explode, disappoint or mess with our expectations of genre, time or linearity. this is something I’ve been interested in for some time and it’s a pleasure to be taking some time thinking about it more deeply.
Queered narratives
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Bridget balodis
i’m a queer theatre director and educator. I work with new australian writing and am passionate about the expansiveness of the australian identity. From 2020 to 2023 I was director in residence at the Malthouse Theatre. I have presented work independently in New York, Melbourne, manila, brisbane, and sydney and also with the Next Wave Festival, darlinghurst theatre co, Red Stitch, Theatre Republic, Darebin Speakeasy, norpa, You Are Here festival and Penrith Arts Centre. my work has toured in regional australia as well as to wuzhen theatre festival in china.
I have been the recipient of the Ian Potter traveling scholarship, Mike Walsh Fellowship and Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Award. I am a proud queer person and parent.
i am passionate about saying yes to unconventional, marginalised playwrights. if we keep saying that we want ‘new voices’, we must honour what these playwright’s want to say and how they want to speak. Commissions are not enough. we have to present the work of the underrepresented & stop asking artists to conform to what’s familiar.
