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Griffin Theatre Company is ecstatic to announce that the winner of the 2026 Griffin Award is Vernon Pua for his play, 8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED!

About the Play
As Sydney gears up for the Olympics, two international students, Sunny and Meng begin the year living in a cramped share-house room, sharing a single bed on alternating 12-hour shifts—no overlap, no questions, no intimacy. What begins as a practical arrangement slowly deepens into something harder to contain. As financial pressure mounts and personal truths surface, friendship blurs into desire, daring them to cross a line. 
 
8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED is a tender, unsentimental two-hander about what it costs to survive and the quiet choices that shape who we become. 

Join us in congratulating Vernon and all the shortlisted playwrights for this year's Award: Amarantha and Danish Sheikh and the highly commended playwright Zack Lewin.

The Griffin Award is generously supported by the @copyrightagency_'s Cultural Fund—a proud supporter of new Australian writing and the Griffin Award.

Entries for the Griffin Award 2027 open in late 2026.

#GriffinAward #Griffin2026 #NewAustralianPlays
📸 @tenikomo
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Hey 👋 We are presenting a trans and gender diverse performance of Afterglow on 18 July for audiences who identify as transgender or have lived experience of being transgender or gender-diverse. 

After the performance, there will be a Q&A panel with the team and members of the trans and gender diverse community. 💖

See you in the theatre!

AFTERGLOW COMMUNITY NIGHT
📍 Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
18 July, 7pm
Book now | Link in Bio
📸: @lucyparakhina
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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT
Developed during her time as a 2024 Griffin Studio artist, MUM CLUB by Jorjia Gillis is a riotously funny look at new motherhood and an all-too-real journey to find community.

We are excited to share that the impressive cast of five performers who will be flexing their funny chops are:

ALEX MALONE
MEGAN WILDING
RUBY TEYS
STEPHANIE SOMERVILLE
ZARIF

Bringing their antics to life are the inimitable duo—Director Ian Michael (SISTREN, CONSTELLATIONS) and Associate Director Abbie-lee Lewis (SAPLINGS, BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY).

See you at MUM CLUB from 22 August!

MUM CLUB
By Jorjia Gillis
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
22 August – 20 September
Book now | Link in bio
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Opening Night bows of AFTERGLOW by Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearneat the Belvoir Downstairs Theatre. Congratulations to our talented cast and creative team 💈💇‍♂️🎶
 
Playing until Saturday 25 July 2026.💫
 
AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
Until 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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Purple Tape Productions is proud to partner with trans-led company No Milk in my T to celebrate trans creativity, storytelling and community through a limited edition enamel pin.

Inspired by the classic barber pole, this limited edition pin reimagines the iconic three-colour swirl in the colours of the trans flag.

We are excited to share that the pin is currently available at the discounted price of $11 when pre-purchased with a ticket to preview performances of AFTERGLOW. 

AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
9 – 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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On behalf of everyone here at Griffin, THANK YOU! 

Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, you've helped ensure that Griffin can continue giving bold new Australian stories somewhere to begin. 

Every year, playwrights arrive at Griffin with a first draft or an idea they can't quite let go of. With your support, those small beginnings are given the time, space, and belief they need to grow. From first readings and workshops to rehearsals and opening nights, your generosity helps carry new work through every stage of the journey. 🎭

Love,
The Griffs xx
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This is our unofficial, highly biased and very harmonious Couples Barbershop Matrix. Couples will be judged on their ability to sing barbershop and how cute they are while singing it.

💈 The vertical axis = Sweet to Sour, how wholesome they would be singing barbershop.
💈 The horizontal axis = Sounds Good to Sounds Bad, self-explanatory.

Think we got something wrong? Comment your corrections below!

AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
9 – 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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📜 PLAY SUBMISSIONS 🪶 

Open access matters: it creates pathways for writers at any stage of their career and helps ensure our stages reflect the breadth, complexity and imagination of contemporary Australia. 

To ensure every play is given the time and consideration it deserves (and to help us manage the volume of submissions), we will hold two open play submission cycles each year. The best news? The first will be Friday 2 October to Friday 9 October this year! 

During these week-long windows, writers will be invited to submit full drafts of plays through an online portal. Each play will be read and feedback provided within three months by the Griffin artistic team, as well as external consultants and collaborators. 

This will help us read more work with more consideration and allows us to connect with more playwrights and plays outside of our creative programs and their application processes. If you have any questions about play submissions, please get in touch through literary@griffintheatre.com.au or visit our website. 

PLAY SUBMISSIONS 
2 – 9 October
Learn more | Link in bio
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Every new Australian play starts somewhere small. 

A scribbled idea, a first read-through, a workshop where something suddenly clicks. 

Griffin exists to nurture those early stages. From those beginnings have come works like PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller, CITY OF GOLD by Meyne Wyatt and WHITEFELLA YELLA TREE by Dylan Van Den Berg—stories that started in a tiny Kings Cross theatre and went on to have big futures and national and international impact. 

Join us on our journey from first draft to opening night. 

No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin. 

Donate before 30 June | Link in bio
#SupportGriffin #SupportTheArts #NewAustralianPlays
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If you’ve been past the new theatre site recently, you may have noticed the walls getting higher and higher 🏗️
 
In April, semi-trailers lined up on Nimrod Street to truck in the first pre-cast concrete panels to adorn the new building—and these ones are particularly special. The four panels mimic the design of the original barn doors that served as the entry to the SBW Stables Theatre. The cast concrete and panels were set into moulded trays with distinctive diagonal timber framing to stylise the original barn doors and will now sit in the exact same place as their predecessors, honouring its history.
 
Make sure you’re signed up to our Redevelopment email for updates.
 
GRIFFIN REDEVELOPMENT
Sign up for news | Link in bio
#GriffinRedevelopment
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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT—LACUNA BY ERIC JIANG

We are over the moon to announce the three incredible performers who comprise the cast of Eric Jiang's tale of family, forgetting and the dire consequences of commodifying the divine—LACUNA:

RACHEL SEETO
LORETTA KUNG
DOMINIC LUI

Tickets to LACUNA are now on sale—see you in July!

LACUNA
By Eric Jiang
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
30 July - 15 August
Book now | Link in Bio
An @essential_workers production
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Tickets for the 2026 Griffin Award & Keynote are now on sale!

Join us on Monday 13 July to celebrate the future of Australian playwriting. Limited seats are now on sale to the 2026 Griffin Award & Keynote event where finalists Amarantha, Danish Sheikh and Vernon Pua will have excerpts of their new plays read, before one of them is celebrated as the winner of the 2026 Griffin Award.

Alongside this presentation will be a rousing a keynote speech from writer, actor and director Sheridan Harbridge. Fresh off the PRIMA FACIE tour, Sheridan boasts a body of work that spans performance, directing and playwriting. She will bring all facets of her career together to provide unique insight into the playwriting landscape.

Extremely limited tickets are available—book now to avoid missing out!

2026 GRIFFIN AWARD KEYNOTE
Keynote Speaker @miss_harbinger
Supported by @copyrightagency_
📍 Belvoir St Theatre
13 July
Learn more | Link in Bio
#GriffinAwardKeynote #Griffin2026
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THANK YOU SYDNEY ❤️

Last night, Sheridan Harbridge took her last bow in the triumphant homecoming season of Suzie Miller's PRIMA FACIE.

What started as an idea in 2018 quickly became a global phenomenon—thank you to every single person who came to witness and share in this incredible story.

📸 Brett Boardman
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"Those people that took a chance on that script so early on. the should be so proud of what they've done for our industry"

Before it was seen by millions, translated into over 30 languages and performed in over 50 countries, it began here.

Suzie Miller's PRIMA FACIE is a global phenomenon with humble beginnings in a 100-seat theatre in an old horse stable. The power of Australian theatre and stories is far reaching, something Griffin knows all too well.

We are proud to champion the fiercest, boldest Australian stories—if you were one of the 1.2 million people to see this play, thank you.

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
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Griffin has been bringing big, important Australian stories to our iconic, tiny kite stage at the SBW Stables Theatre for decades. 

And since we turned our small theatre into a big, BIG hole, we’ve been continuing to tread the boards of small stages across Sydney at Downstairs Belvoir, The Old Fitz and the Seymour Centre. 

But the stories speak of worlds, ideas, risks far greater than the modest footprint on which we perform. 

🏪 Tiny convenience store < giant K-Pop stage in Michelle Lim Davidson’s KOREABOO 
🏠 A home in the small town of Kalgoorlie < the loud howl of rage of injustice and inequality in Meyne Wyatt’s CITY OF GOLD
🎠 Huge PONY < the centrepiece to Eloise Snape’s play about the grand delusions of fast approaching motherhood. 
🌳 One small park bench < decades of Darlinghurst secrets in Elias Jamieson Brown’s GREEN PARK. 

And all these stories only happen because of you. 

No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin. 
 
Donate before 30 June | Link in bio 
#SupportGriffin #SupportTheArts #NewAustralianPlay
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The Griffin Award recognises an outstanding idea for a play or performance text that displays an authentic, inventive and contemporary Australian voice. It is with utmost excitement that we announce the three finalists and their plays for the 2026 Griffin Award. 

Amarantha—THEY CAME FOR CANE 
Danish Sheikh—BUREAUCRACY: A LOVE STORY 
Vernon Pua—8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED 

Highly Commended: Zack Lewin—FUCK•A•PAPA 

In 2026, thanks to the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, the winner will receive a full commission and dramaturgical support from Griffin Theatre Company to develop their play in-house. 

The winner will be announced on Monday 13 July at Downstairs Belvoir alongside a keynote speech from writer, actor and director Sheridan Harbridge (@miss_harbinger) whose body of work spans both performance and playwriting, including titles such as MY BRILLIANT CAREER and PRIMA FACIE. There will be a limited number of public tickets available from midday on Monday 22 June. 

2026 GRIFFIN AWARD KEYNOTE 
Keynote Speaker @miss_harbinger 
Supported by @copyrightagency_ 
📍 Belvoir St Theatre 
Tickets on Sale 22 June
Learn more | Link in Bio 
#GriffinAwardKeynote #Griffin2026
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Then vs Now—seven years apart.

PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller has travelled around the world before returning home to Sydney. This story has come so far since it was first staged in our little theatre on the hill with Sheridan Harbridge still boogieing away 💃🕺🪩

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Book now | Link in bio
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We are still not over SAVIOR by Happy Feraren 😭

Thank you for everything—you will be missed.
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Thank you SAVIOR, you have been magical! 

Happy Feraren's debut play took the Downstairs Belvoir Theatre by storm ⛈️ We couldn't be more proud of the cast and creative team and thank every single person who's supported the play. 🇵🇭
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Which SAVIOR out of context scene are you?

SAVIOR
By Happy Feraren
📍 Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
Until 14 June
Join the Waitlist | Link in Bio
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After our community night performance of SAVIOR by Happy Feraren on Saturday, these five creatives are now part of the Pamana jacket forever:
 
❤️ Happy Feraren
💙 Tyler Fitzpatrick
🤍 Chaye Mogg
💛 Chrissy Mae Valentine
🇵🇭 DOBBY (We missed you on the day!)
 
@thepamanajacket celebrates Filipinx theatremakers—established, emerging and present—on and off the Australian stage. Every stitch is a mark of visibility and representation, preserved for generations to come. 🥹
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When Suzie Miller, Lee Lewis and Sheridan Harbridge sat around the kitchen table workshopping the play, cups of coffee going cold as they discussed justice, power, the law and theatre’s ability to challenge them—they could never have predicted the global phenomenon PRIMA FACIE would become.
 
PRIMA FACIE has had phenomenal trajectory from its humble beginnings at the SBW Stables Theatre. From winning the Griffin Award in 2018 (originally titled ON THE FACE OF IT), to its world premiere at the Stables in 2019, to a sell-out national tour in 2023, to travelling to the West End (and winning multiple Olivier Awards) and Broadway (winning a Tony Award)—it's finally back home in an unmissable homecoming season.

Who would have though that the play that took over the world had such a small beginning.
 
This end of financial year, your support helps us on the adventure from first idea to opening night. Who knows what big future of Australian theatre we could be creating together...
 
No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin.
 
Donate before 30 June | 🔗 in bio
#SupportGriffin #SupportTheArts #NewAustralianPlay
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Just two incredible women—no big deal 🥹

The triumphant homecoming season of Suzie Miller's global phenomenon PRIMA FACIE opened in Sydney last night to thunderous applause. 

We're beyond thrilled to be bringing the award-winning original Griffin production back to Australian stages in partnership with Andrew Henry Presents.

Seven years later, PRIMA FACIE is still as relevant and just as electric. Don't miss it.

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Book now | Link in bio
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Kumain ka na! 
 
If you loved SAVIOR (or missed out on a ticket) and want to get around some more Filo goodness then why not come along to merienda!
 
Filipinos don’t ask how you are—they ask if you’ve eaten yet. Like many Asian cultures, love is rooted in food and coming together to share in a meal. So we’ve teamed up with @taguancafe.syd to gather together over some Filipino delights.
 
Your $10 ticket for merienda gets you:
 ✨ freshly baked pandesal
 ✨ calamantea
 ✨ ube brownie
 
Tickets are limited—book your spot now!
 
MERIENDA
6 June, from 3pm
Taguan Cafe
Book now | Link in bio
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Griffin Theatre Company is ecstatic to announce that the winner of the 2026 Griffin Award is Vernon Pua for his play, 8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED!

About the Play
As Sydney gears up for the Olympics, two international students, Sunny and Meng begin the year living in a cramped share-house room, sharing a single bed on alternating 12-hour shifts—no overlap, no questions, no intimacy. What begins as a practical arrangement slowly deepens into something harder to contain. As financial pressure mounts and personal truths surface, friendship blurs into desire, daring them to cross a line. 
 
8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED is a tender, unsentimental two-hander about what it costs to survive and the quiet choices that shape who we become. 

Join us in congratulating Vernon and all the shortlisted playwrights for this year's Award: Amarantha and Danish Sheikh and the highly commended playwright Zack Lewin.

The Griffin Award is generously supported by the @copyrightagency_'s Cultural Fund—a proud supporter of new Australian writing and the Griffin Award.

Entries for the Griffin Award 2027 open in late 2026.

#GriffinAward #Griffin2026 #NewAustralianPlays
📸 @tenikomo
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Hey 👋 We are presenting a trans and gender diverse performance of Afterglow on 18 July for audiences who identify as transgender or have lived experience of being transgender or gender-diverse. 

After the performance, there will be a Q&A panel with the team and members of the trans and gender diverse community. 💖

See you in the theatre!

AFTERGLOW COMMUNITY NIGHT
📍 Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
18 July, 7pm
Book now | Link in Bio
📸: @lucyparakhina
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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT
Developed during her time as a 2024 Griffin Studio artist, MUM CLUB by Jorjia Gillis is a riotously funny look at new motherhood and an all-too-real journey to find community.

We are excited to share that the impressive cast of five performers who will be flexing their funny chops are:

ALEX MALONE
MEGAN WILDING
RUBY TEYS
STEPHANIE SOMERVILLE
ZARIF

Bringing their antics to life are the inimitable duo—Director Ian Michael (SISTREN, CONSTELLATIONS) and Associate Director Abbie-lee Lewis (SAPLINGS, BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY).

See you at MUM CLUB from 22 August!

MUM CLUB
By Jorjia Gillis
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
22 August – 20 September
Book now | Link in bio
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Opening Night bows of AFTERGLOW by Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearneat the Belvoir Downstairs Theatre. Congratulations to our talented cast and creative team 💈💇‍♂️🎶
 
Playing until Saturday 25 July 2026.💫
 
AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
Until 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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Purple Tape Productions is proud to partner with trans-led company No Milk in my T to celebrate trans creativity, storytelling and community through a limited edition enamel pin.

Inspired by the classic barber pole, this limited edition pin reimagines the iconic three-colour swirl in the colours of the trans flag.

We are excited to share that the pin is currently available at the discounted price of $11 when pre-purchased with a ticket to preview performances of AFTERGLOW. 

AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
9 – 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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On behalf of everyone here at Griffin, THANK YOU! 

Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, you've helped ensure that Griffin can continue giving bold new Australian stories somewhere to begin. 

Every year, playwrights arrive at Griffin with a first draft or an idea they can't quite let go of. With your support, those small beginnings are given the time, space, and belief they need to grow. From first readings and workshops to rehearsals and opening nights, your generosity helps carry new work through every stage of the journey. 🎭

Love,
The Griffs xx
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This is our unofficial, highly biased and very harmonious Couples Barbershop Matrix. Couples will be judged on their ability to sing barbershop and how cute they are while singing it.

💈 The vertical axis = Sweet to Sour, how wholesome they would be singing barbershop.
💈 The horizontal axis = Sounds Good to Sounds Bad, self-explanatory.

Think we got something wrong? Comment your corrections below!

AFTERGLOW
By Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian M. Hearne
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
9 – 25 July
Book now | Link in bio
A @purpletapeproductions
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📜 PLAY SUBMISSIONS 🪶 

Open access matters: it creates pathways for writers at any stage of their career and helps ensure our stages reflect the breadth, complexity and imagination of contemporary Australia. 

To ensure every play is given the time and consideration it deserves (and to help us manage the volume of submissions), we will hold two open play submission cycles each year. The best news? The first will be Friday 2 October to Friday 9 October this year! 

During these week-long windows, writers will be invited to submit full drafts of plays through an online portal. Each play will be read and feedback provided within three months by the Griffin artistic team, as well as external consultants and collaborators. 

This will help us read more work with more consideration and allows us to connect with more playwrights and plays outside of our creative programs and their application processes. If you have any questions about play submissions, please get in touch through literary@griffintheatre.com.au or visit our website. 

PLAY SUBMISSIONS 
2 – 9 October
Learn more | Link in bio
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Every new Australian play starts somewhere small. 

A scribbled idea, a first read-through, a workshop where something suddenly clicks. 

Griffin exists to nurture those early stages. From those beginnings have come works like PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller, CITY OF GOLD by Meyne Wyatt and WHITEFELLA YELLA TREE by Dylan Van Den Berg—stories that started in a tiny Kings Cross theatre and went on to have big futures and national and international impact. 

Join us on our journey from first draft to opening night. 

No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin. 

Donate before 30 June | Link in bio
#SupportGriffin #SupportTheArts #NewAustralianPlays
Open post by griffintheatre with ID 17894594139500028
If you’ve been past the new theatre site recently, you may have noticed the walls getting higher and higher 🏗️
 
In April, semi-trailers lined up on Nimrod Street to truck in the first pre-cast concrete panels to adorn the new building—and these ones are particularly special. The four panels mimic the design of the original barn doors that served as the entry to the SBW Stables Theatre. The cast concrete and panels were set into moulded trays with distinctive diagonal timber framing to stylise the original barn doors and will now sit in the exact same place as their predecessors, honouring its history.
 
Make sure you’re signed up to our Redevelopment email for updates.
 
GRIFFIN REDEVELOPMENT
Sign up for news | Link in bio
#GriffinRedevelopment
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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT—LACUNA BY ERIC JIANG

We are over the moon to announce the three incredible performers who comprise the cast of Eric Jiang's tale of family, forgetting and the dire consequences of commodifying the divine—LACUNA:

RACHEL SEETO
LORETTA KUNG
DOMINIC LUI

Tickets to LACUNA are now on sale—see you in July!

LACUNA
By Eric Jiang
📍 Downstairs Theatre, @belvoirst
30 July - 15 August
Book now | Link in Bio
An @essential_workers production
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Tickets for the 2026 Griffin Award & Keynote are now on sale!

Join us on Monday 13 July to celebrate the future of Australian playwriting. Limited seats are now on sale to the 2026 Griffin Award & Keynote event where finalists Amarantha, Danish Sheikh and Vernon Pua will have excerpts of their new plays read, before one of them is celebrated as the winner of the 2026 Griffin Award.

Alongside this presentation will be a rousing a keynote speech from writer, actor and director Sheridan Harbridge. Fresh off the PRIMA FACIE tour, Sheridan boasts a body of work that spans performance, directing and playwriting. She will bring all facets of her career together to provide unique insight into the playwriting landscape.

Extremely limited tickets are available—book now to avoid missing out!

2026 GRIFFIN AWARD KEYNOTE
Keynote Speaker @miss_harbinger
Supported by @copyrightagency_
📍 Belvoir St Theatre
13 July
Learn more | Link in Bio
#GriffinAwardKeynote #Griffin2026
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THANK YOU SYDNEY ❤️

Last night, Sheridan Harbridge took her last bow in the triumphant homecoming season of Suzie Miller's PRIMA FACIE.

What started as an idea in 2018 quickly became a global phenomenon—thank you to every single person who came to witness and share in this incredible story.

📸 Brett Boardman
Open post by griffintheatre with ID 18097842065178731
"Those people that took a chance on that script so early on. the should be so proud of what they've done for our industry"

Before it was seen by millions, translated into over 30 languages and performed in over 50 countries, it began here.

Suzie Miller's PRIMA FACIE is a global phenomenon with humble beginnings in a 100-seat theatre in an old horse stable. The power of Australian theatre and stories is far reaching, something Griffin knows all too well.

We are proud to champion the fiercest, boldest Australian stories—if you were one of the 1.2 million people to see this play, thank you.

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Open post by griffintheatre with ID 18146439682515022
Griffin has been bringing big, important Australian stories to our iconic, tiny kite stage at the SBW Stables Theatre for decades. 

And since we turned our small theatre into a big, BIG hole, we’ve been continuing to tread the boards of small stages across Sydney at Downstairs Belvoir, The Old Fitz and the Seymour Centre. 

But the stories speak of worlds, ideas, risks far greater than the modest footprint on which we perform. 

🏪 Tiny convenience store < giant K-Pop stage in Michelle Lim Davidson’s KOREABOO 
🏠 A home in the small town of Kalgoorlie < the loud howl of rage of injustice and inequality in Meyne Wyatt’s CITY OF GOLD
🎠 Huge PONY < the centrepiece to Eloise Snape’s play about the grand delusions of fast approaching motherhood. 
🌳 One small park bench < decades of Darlinghurst secrets in Elias Jamieson Brown’s GREEN PARK. 

And all these stories only happen because of you. 

No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin. 
 
Donate before 30 June | Link in bio 
#SupportGriffin #SupportTheArts #NewAustralianPlay
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The Griffin Award recognises an outstanding idea for a play or performance text that displays an authentic, inventive and contemporary Australian voice. It is with utmost excitement that we announce the three finalists and their plays for the 2026 Griffin Award. 

Amarantha—THEY CAME FOR CANE 
Danish Sheikh—BUREAUCRACY: A LOVE STORY 
Vernon Pua—8 HOT TIPS ON SHARING YOUR BED 

Highly Commended: Zack Lewin—FUCK•A•PAPA 

In 2026, thanks to the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, the winner will receive a full commission and dramaturgical support from Griffin Theatre Company to develop their play in-house. 

The winner will be announced on Monday 13 July at Downstairs Belvoir alongside a keynote speech from writer, actor and director Sheridan Harbridge (@miss_harbinger) whose body of work spans both performance and playwriting, including titles such as MY BRILLIANT CAREER and PRIMA FACIE. There will be a limited number of public tickets available from midday on Monday 22 June. 

2026 GRIFFIN AWARD KEYNOTE 
Keynote Speaker @miss_harbinger 
Supported by @copyrightagency_ 
📍 Belvoir St Theatre 
Tickets on Sale 22 June
Learn more | Link in Bio 
#GriffinAwardKeynote #Griffin2026
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Then vs Now—seven years apart.

PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller has travelled around the world before returning home to Sydney. This story has come so far since it was first staged in our little theatre on the hill with Sheridan Harbridge still boogieing away 💃🕺🪩

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
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We are still not over SAVIOR by Happy Feraren 😭

Thank you for everything—you will be missed.
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Thank you SAVIOR, you have been magical! 

Happy Feraren's debut play took the Downstairs Belvoir Theatre by storm ⛈️ We couldn't be more proud of the cast and creative team and thank every single person who's supported the play. 🇵🇭
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Which SAVIOR out of context scene are you?

SAVIOR
By Happy Feraren
📍 Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
Until 14 June
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After our community night performance of SAVIOR by Happy Feraren on Saturday, these five creatives are now part of the Pamana jacket forever:
 
❤️ Happy Feraren
💙 Tyler Fitzpatrick
🤍 Chaye Mogg
💛 Chrissy Mae Valentine
🇵🇭 DOBBY (We missed you on the day!)
 
@thepamanajacket celebrates Filipinx theatremakers—established, emerging and present—on and off the Australian stage. Every stitch is a mark of visibility and representation, preserved for generations to come. 🥹
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When Suzie Miller, Lee Lewis and Sheridan Harbridge sat around the kitchen table workshopping the play, cups of coffee going cold as they discussed justice, power, the law and theatre’s ability to challenge them—they could never have predicted the global phenomenon PRIMA FACIE would become.
 
PRIMA FACIE has had phenomenal trajectory from its humble beginnings at the SBW Stables Theatre. From winning the Griffin Award in 2018 (originally titled ON THE FACE OF IT), to its world premiere at the Stables in 2019, to a sell-out national tour in 2023, to travelling to the West End (and winning multiple Olivier Awards) and Broadway (winning a Tony Award)—it's finally back home in an unmissable homecoming season.

Who would have though that the play that took over the world had such a small beginning.
 
This end of financial year, your support helps us on the adventure from first idea to opening night. Who knows what big future of Australian theatre we could be creating together...
 
No matter the size, all donations make a big impact at Griffin.
 
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Just two incredible women—no big deal 🥹

The triumphant homecoming season of Suzie Miller's global phenomenon PRIMA FACIE opened in Sydney last night to thunderous applause. 

We're beyond thrilled to be bringing the award-winning original Griffin production back to Australian stages in partnership with Andrew Henry Presents.

Seven years later, PRIMA FACIE is still as relevant and just as electric. Don't miss it.

PRIMA FACIE
By Suzie Miller
Until 21 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
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Kumain ka na! 
 
If you loved SAVIOR (or missed out on a ticket) and want to get around some more Filo goodness then why not come along to merienda!
 
Filipinos don’t ask how you are—they ask if you’ve eaten yet. Like many Asian cultures, love is rooted in food and coming together to share in a meal. So we’ve teamed up with @taguancafe.syd to gather together over some Filipino delights.
 
Your $10 ticket for merienda gets you:
 ✨ freshly baked pandesal
 ✨ calamantea
 ✨ ube brownie
 
Tickets are limited—book your spot now!
 
MERIENDA
6 June, from 3pm
Taguan Cafe
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