Marni Mount

2024 Hansen Graduate Director

Marni Mount (she/they) is a director, actor, and dramaturg living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Focusing on new Australian writing for the stage and screen, Marni makes work that is formally inventive, visually imaginative, and unafraid to take on big ideas. With an interest in adaptation and work that creatively engages with the canon, she has a reputation for making smart, funny, feminist work.

In 2023, she directed the Melbourne premiere of MinusOneSister by Anna Barnes, and her critically acclaimed production of Emmanuelle Mattana's stunning debut play Trophy Boys sold out a two-week return season at fortyfivedownstairs as part of Midsumma Festival. In 2022, she directed the mainland premiere of The Camel by Dylan Van Den Berg, and the premiere of Trophy Boys as part of the La Mama Explorations season.

Her production of Trophy Boys will tour nationally in 2024.

Before relocating to Melbourne in 2021, Marni worked as an independent artist across the theatre sector in Canberra, working with The Street Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra Youth Theatre, Shakespeare by the Lakes, the National University Theatre Society, and Screen Canberra.

Marni is a graduate of the Australian National University and the Victorian College of the Arts.