Lee Lewis

Director

Lee Lewis is one of Australia’s leading directors awarded an OAM in 2024 for her services to Australian theatre. Over the last 20 years, she has directed over 80 productions across all the State Theatre companies and around the country. As Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company, she discovered, developed and produced over 50 new plays by Australian playwrights across eight seasons. Highlights included the first productions of the global hit Prima Facie by Suzie Miller and The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini, both of which she directed.

Last year, her critically acclaimed national tour of Gaslight captivated audiences around the country. She has directed several of David Williamson’s comedies including the highly successful production of Rupert for Melbourne Theatre Company which toured to the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. and had a run at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. Her adaptation of Twelfth Night for Bell Shakespeare is still on the Victorian school’s syllabus.

As Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre, she steered the company through COVID shutdowns and floods, returning to live performance earlier than most. Her credits there include First Casualty by Lt. Col. Christopher Johnston - the only professional production in the world of a play written by a currently serving member of the armed forces - and the Australian premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things by Nia Vardalos and Tom Kail. Her tenure also saw the first production of Boy Swallows Universe and the commissioning of Round The Twist: The Musical, which premiered in Brisbane in 2024.