Grace Wilson

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 and won the award in the following year with her work, GOODBYE, ELI ANDERSON.

Grace has gone on to be a finalist in several other major awards including Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwrights’ 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, Premier’s Drama Award 2026 and the ATYP Foundation Commission. Her production credits including Sydney University Dramatic Society, Underground Theatre Company, Vena Cava Productions and JB Theatre Co. Most recently, Grace completed a paid play commission titled VERY FINE PEOPLE, directed by Wesley Enoch for QUT’s graduating class of 2024.