Abbie-lee Lewis

Writer | Director

Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon director, writer and actor.

Her debut play Dirty Diamonds was a finalist of the 2025 Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award. In 2025 she will direct Dylan Van Den Berg’s new adaptation The Chosen Vessel after Barbara Baynton’s short story for The Street Theatre, Canberra. She was assistant director to Ian Michael on Belvoir St Theatre’s 2025 production Big Girls Don’t Cry by Dalara Williams. For her writing, Abbie-lee was a member of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2023-2025 Watershed: Writers.

In 2024, she directed Hannah Belanszky’s Saplings for Australian Theatre for Young People which won the 2024 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production for Young People. The year before she directed Jane Montgomery Griffiths' an ox stand on my tongue for Belvoir 25A.

Abbie-lee was the Andrew Cameron Fellow for Belvoir in 2022 and 2023. During that time she worked as assistant director to Hannah Goodwin and Eamon Flack on Alana Valentine’s Wayside Bride in rep with Caryl Churchill’s Light Shinning in Buckinghamshire and director Sarah Goodes on The Weekend adapted by Sue Smith.

For Bell Shakespeare, she was assistant director to Peter Evans on mainstage productions of Hamlet (2020) and Macbeth (2023). Prior to that she made her directing debut with Bruce Pascoe's Cutter and Coota for Moogahlin Performing Arts in 2022.

Abbie-lee trained in Aboriginal Theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth and is a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) course.

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