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 2026 she will direct the National Tour of Hannah Belanszky’s Saplings for Australian Theatre for Young People. The production is touring eleven venues across Australia, including Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne. The premiere season won the 2024 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production for Young People. For her writing, Abbie-lee was a member of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2023-2025 Watershed: Writers.

In 2025 she directed Dylan Van Den Berg’s 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 production Big Girls Don’t Cry by Dalara Williams.

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. In 2023, she directed Jane Montgomery Griffiths' an ox stand on my tongue for Belvoir 25A.

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.

As an actor, Abbie-lee has toured with Belvoir’s production of Counting and Cracking by S. Shakthidharan (with associate writer Eamon Flack) to Edinburgh Festival, Birmingham Rep, Melbourne, Sydney and New York’s The Public Theater. Other stage credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era for Belvoir, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen for Sport for Jove, Our Town for Black Swan State Theatre Company, a national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Bell Shakespeare and Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree at the Blue Room Theatre, Perth. Her television credits include Black Comedy for ABC.

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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