Challito Browne

Writer | Actor

Challito Browne is a Sydney based playwright, screenwriter, actor and director living on Dharug land.

Challito’s acclaimed play Beyond The Break, produced downstairs at Belvoir for 25A, was nominated for the 2024 AWGIE Award in the Best Original Stage Play category following his nomination as Best Lead Performer by the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2023; it is published by PlayLab. Earlier that year, the short film he wrote and starred in, My Neighbour Maleko, was an official selection at the Lebanese Film Festival.  

He has various works in development: the plays The Geist (Voxstep's Local Host development program), In the Footprints of Giants (National Theatre of Parramatta development), Sacred Hands, originally programmed for Griffin’s BATCH festival in 2019, and Diamond Hands – a comedy, rap-musical, selected for The Hayes Theatre’s Showlab. Challito has written and performed in immersive theatre projects Dancing Bear (2024), Eternityland (2023) and Message Bank (2023), the latter selected for Sydney Festival.

Challito regularly works as a notetaker and contributor in writers’ rooms. Companies include Brouhaha, Lingo, Dreamchaser, Co-Curious and Matchbox. He’s also writing for We are Gladiators – a videogame with a playable demo on Steam. 

As an actor he has appeared in Mother and Son (Wooden Horse/ABC), Stan’s Critical Incident (Matchbox) and Frayed (Guesswork for ABC/HBO/Sky).

For enquiries regarding Challito Browne, please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199