Grace Wilson is a playwright hailing from Gimuy country, but currently resides in Meanjin. Working as an actor at the Young Company Theatre in Gimuy, Grace had a profiecncy for devised works for young people that had her performing at Cairns Festival and Cairns Children’s Festival. Her playwrighting titles include MY NAME IS TOMMY, GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON, PALLAS SISTER RISING (theatrePUNKco), CALIFORNIA ORANGE STELLAR (KXT Bakehouse, Javeenbah Theatre Company), DOGHOLE (Vena Cava Productions, Underground Theatre Company, Sydney University Dramatic Society), PONY CLUB (Observatory Theatre) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (Queensland University of Technology). In 2023, Grace completed her Fishbowl Residency with Queensland Writer’s Centre, and was commissioned by Observatory Theatre and Queensland University of Technology.

At 16, Grace’s debut work MY NAME IS TOMMY, was a finalist for Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award in 2021.

In 2022, Grace would write her second work, GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON, which would see her winning the Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Award. GOODBYE ELI ANDERSON would go on to be a finalist in Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, Griffin Theatre Company’s Griffin Award, Queensland Theatre’s Premiers Drama Award and the Queensland Writers Centre’s Stageable award.

Most recently, DOGHOLE would earn top three in TheatreHaus’s Peoples Choice Awards in 2023. In 2024, DOGHOLE would go on to win Underground’s Best Mainstage award for 2024 and received rave reviews from ATYP, Drama Dispatch, Honi Soit and Westender.

In between these works, Grace has been actively working on her craft, working with companies such ATYP, La Boite, and Playlab in order to push herself further. She has also received several accolades for her pitches for commissions, being longlisted for the Griffin Award 2024, ATYP’s Foundation Commission and was a finalist for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize.