Cassie Hamilton

Bio

Cassie is a transgender writer, performer, and director based on Gadigal land, working across theatre, film, and new musical development. Her practice centres queer storytelling with heart, humour, and theatrical ambition, often blending intimacy with spectacle.

As a performer, Cassie has appeared in leading and main cast roles across Australian stages, including A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying (The Old Fitz Theatre; Adelaide Cabaret Festival; Chapel Off Chapel; Hayes Theatre), Symphonie Fantastique (KXT), Our Blood Runs in the Street (Chopt Logic), I Hope It’s Not Raining in London (Bearfoot Theatre),Rent (Pantseat Productions), , The History Boys, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Hinterland (Young People’s Theatre).

Her screen work includes leading roles in Through the Mirror and Lu Lemon in ’76, as well as more recently the drag road-trip musical film Satranic Panic, which premiered at SxSW Sydney 2025.

Cassie’s writing spans plays, musicals, and screen. Her new musical A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying was awarded the APRA Professional Development Award in 2025 and has been developed with Hayes Theatre, Homegrown, and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Her play Animal was shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Award and premiered with Brand X in 2024. She was a co-writer on Satranic Panic, which premiered at SXSW in 2023 and was recently released on Shudder. Her queer farce Daddy Developed a Pill debuted at Kings Cross Theatre in 2022 before touring to Theatre Works in Melbourne in 2023.

As a director and dramaturg, Cassie has worked with companies including Griffin Theatre Company, The Old Fitz Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, and Bearfoot Theatre. She is a founding member of the Trans Theatre Collective, with whom she dramaturged and directed No Love Songs for Lady Basses at the Old Fitz, and she will direct Afterglow by Sheanna Parker Russon at Griffin Theatre Company in 2026.

She is also the co-founder of Bearfoot Theatre, a company dedicated to producing original queer works.

Cassie holds a Diploma of Musical Theatre and was part of ATYP’s 2020 Fresh Ink National Mentoring Program. She is an alumnus of the Montague Basement and KXT Laboratory programs and has completed AFTRS’ How to Write a Television Show short course. Her work has also been recognised with multiple City of Newcastle Drama Awards for Playing Face, including Best New Work, Best Director, and Best Dramatic Production.