Biography

Frieda Lee grew up in Sydney, and is of Chinese and Indonesian descent. She has worked with The Last Great Hunt on “The Advisors” (2017) and “Improvement Club” (2018). In 2017 she was a recipient of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation prize for her play “All His Beloved Children”. 

Frieda acted for Barking Gecko Theatre Company in “A Ghost in My Suitcase” at the Melbourne International Arts Festival (2018), Sydney Festival (2019) and Perth Festival (2019). She collaboratively created “The Inconsequential Lives of Little Fish” at The Blue Room Theatre (2018), nominated for five Performing Arts WA Awards. 

Frieda won the PAWA (Performing Arts WA Awards) for Best Actor in an Independent Production 2018. In 2020 she began writing “The Bright Side of Bum Town” as one of Griffin Theatre Company and Create NSW’s Incubator artists. The play was commissioned by the Sydney Opera House’s New Work Now Initiative and won the 2022 Max Afford Playwrights Award. 

Frieda has a Bachelor of Performing Arts from WAAPA, a Bachelor of Arts/Laws, a Master of Human Rights and is currently writing a PhD with UNSW and Australian Plays Transform. 

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