C R E A T I V E
Writer
[stage + screen]
Ash Flanders is a multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter from sunny Melbourne.
His erotic Golden Girls fan fiction became the short film The Divine Decadence of Cheesecake, which played at Frameline, Out On Film, Mardi Gras Film Festival and LLFF Canada. He co-wrote the web series FRIENDLY (over 10K views) and has a slate of fresh screen projects in development. He recently adapted his live solo show End Of. into a TV pilot for Werner Productions.
In 2006, he and Declan Greene formed theatre company Sisters Grimm and together they have written over a dozen shows including Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Griffin Theatre), Little Mercy (STC), The Sovereign Wife (MTC), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse/STC), and Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC).
Other writing credits include being invited to present work for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, The Wheeler Centre’s Show of the Year, and Women of Letters, with his letter published in the book Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
As a solo writer/ performer Ash created the shows Meme Girls (Malthouse), Special Victim (Feast Festival), Playing to Win (Arts Centre Melbourne) and Ash Flanders is NOTHING, as well as the plays SS Metaphor and This Is Living, both commissioned by Malthouse Theatre. In 2024 Ash was selected to be playwright-in residence for the Athenaeum Group.
“Subversive genius.”
The Age
“Ash Flanders is notorious for crafting caustic comedy that makes audiences laugh ‘til they hurt.”
Australian Arts Review
“...As Melbourne tiptoes, bleary-eyed out of lockdown, SS Metaphor comically guides us from the darkest waters to hopefully brighter shores."
SS Metaphor - Timeout
★★★★
'Flanders puts in a phenomenal performance and brilliant comic timing playing all of the victims of BBB’s murderous spree.'
Blackie Blackie Brown - Daily Review
★★★★½
'Ash Flanders, equally endearing in a range of screwball guises, each one hilarious and wonderfully inventive.'
Blackie Blackie Brown - Suzy Goes Sees
'Flanders generates endless hilarity playing a cast of thousands. Many of his sketches are black lampoons of mainstream Australian culture.'
Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★
AWARDS
2021 End Of. - Green Room Award Nomination: Best Production & Performance
2018 Ash Flanders is Nothing – Green Room Award Nomination: Cabaret – Writing
2016 Lilith: The Jungle Girl – Green Room Award Winner: Best New Writing (Sisters Grimm)
2016 Playing to Win – Green Room Award Winner: Cabaret, Writing
2015 Calpurnia Descending – Helpmann Award Nomination: Theatre, Best Play (Sisters Grimm)
2015 Calpurnia Descending – Green Room Award Nomination: Best Production (Sisters Grimm)
2015 Special Victim – Green Room Award Winner: Cabaret, Writing
2014 The Sovereign Wife – Green Room Award Winner: Independent Theatre, Writing