Playwright
In November 2020, Grace co-wrote and performed in Grace Dates Grapes - an online theatre project for Belco Arts with long-time collaborator Anika Kim. She was also nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award for her play Collapse & was inducted into the AWG’s Pathways program after her podcast Electric Lover was shortlisted for the On Air: Audio Originals Writing Competition.
In March 2020, Grace undertook a writing residency at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland.
After receiving a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and being awarded Highly Commended at the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award 2017 — Grace’s play Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y was performed as part of the 2019 Melbourne Fringe (directed by Peter Blackburn, produced by Key Conspirators and North of Eight). In February 2020, the script was published by Australian Plays.
Earlier in 2019, she wrote Collapse for Canberra Youth Theatre, in collaboration with the Company Ensemble, movement specialist Chenoeh Miller, and artistic director Luke Rogers (August 2019). The script was published by Australian Plays in February 2020. She was also commissioned to be one of four writers for nomnomnom time-travelling edition at Testing Grounds (May 2019).
In 2017, Grace was short-listed for Melbourne Theatre Company's Women in Theatre program and invited onto Playwriting Australia's master class with Joanna Murray-Smith. In early 2016, she participated in Back to Back Theatre's CAMP and was invited to be a part of Force Majeure's dance theatre master class. She also had a week-long National Script Workshop with Playwriting Australia, working on 'Cull Your Facebook Friends'. The same play also had a two-day development with US-A-UM (May 2015).
In 2015, she studied 'Sketch Comedy Writing' at Second City in Los Angeles and 'Improvisation 101' at UCB in New York. Additionally, her Fresh Ink 2012 monologue William Burrough's Wife was published by Currency Press as part of a ATYP National Studio encore collection.
Grace is an alumna of Central School of Speech & Drama and ATYP's Fresh Ink National Studio.
Theatre
credits include:
Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y as part of Melbourne Fringe (September 2019)
Collapse for Canberra Youth Theatre at Canberra Theatre Centre (August 2019)
Model Minority as part of nomnomnom time-travelling edition at Testing Grounds (May 2019)
Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y as part of Script Nights by Gasworks Arts Park + Key Conspirators (October 2017)
'Quite Drunk...' as part of Old 505's Rapid Reads Festival by Apocalypse Theatre Co. (directing & producing a full-length staged reading) (August 2017)
'Quite Drunk...' as part of Twelve Angry's Summer Development Fellowship (March 2017)
Public readings of Cull Your Facebook Friends and ‘Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y’ as part of Small & Loud (April & December 2016)
24 Hour Party Playwright as part of Rock Surfer Theatre Company's Bondi Feast (July 2015)
Singled Out at the Seymour Centre (October 2013)
Performed in Camp Super Happy Sunshine Fun at Sydney Fringe (September 2013)
Wrote, performed and co-produced the multi-playwright project Circuit at The Old Fitz (June 2013) and the Rocks Pop Up Project (May 2013)
My Brother's Keeper and Three is Not the Magic Number as part of Theatre 503's Rapid Write Response (2010)