Merridy Eastman

Bio

A NIDA graduate, Merridy’s television career began with a five-year stint on Playschool, followed by roles on everything from Blue Heelers to Rake to Comedy Inc.  She was a regular cast member on award winning series Always Greener as well as Packed to the Rafters for the Seven Network, and Back to the Rafters for Amazon Prime. Feature film credits include Spit (dir: Jonathan Teplitzky).

On stage Merridy has worked for all the major Australian theatre companies including the Sydney Theatre Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Playbox, Malthouse, the Ensemble Theatre, the Australian Shakespeare Company, and the State Theatre Company of South Australia to name a few and spent several summers leaping about botanical gardens across Australia bringing Shakespeare to the masses. Most recent performances include Romeo & Juliet (Bell Shakespeare), the popular new Australian comedy The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race! (Ensemble Theatre) and Hand to God (Old Fitz Theatre). Merridy was awarded the ‘Best Performer in a Supporting Role in an Independent Production’ for her portrayal of Margery in Hand to Gold at the Sydney Theatre Awards 2022.

Merridy’s written work includes the national best-selling book There’s A Bear In There (And He Wants Swedish!) as well as Ridiculous Expectations and How Now Brown Frau, all published by Allen and Unwin. She has also written short stories published by Pan Macmillan and Penguin, and radio plays commissioned by the ABC. Currently she is writing her fourth book, I Knew We Weren’t Spanish!, about the discovery that her great-great grandfather was not a pirate, but a Worimi man from Paterson, New South Wales.