​Lily Balatincz

Biography

 

Lily Balatincz is a performing artist, dramaturg, producer and emerging director who was born and raised on Darug Country in Western Sydney, Australia. She is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting MFA program and UNSW.

 

Her directing credits include Bad Machine by Brooke Robinson (Campbelltown Arts Centre/Casula Powerhouse), From Nowhere to Now Here (Tempo Rubato, Melbourne), She Bit Her Tongue by Caryl Churchill (Studio Tisch, New York) and GFM, co-directed with Dina Shihabi (Freeplay Festival, New York).

 

As a performer, she feels privileged to have participated in exceptional artistic collaborations. These include Amadeus in the Sydney Opera House concert hall for its 50th anniversary season, and the US regional theatre premiere of Nick Payne's Constellations, directly succeeding its Broadway premiere with Ruth Wilson and Jake Gyllenhaal.

 

Lily has worked on the development and premiere of new theatre works The Eggs by Adam Rapp (NYC), Meantime by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros (NYC), Stop the Virgens by Karen O (St Ann's Warehouse, NYC/Sydney Opera House), Weak Trembles by Hal Corley (The Lark, NYC) and I Ragazzi by David Goldsmith (NYC).

 

For her performance work, she has been the recipient of the 2017 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play in Washington DC (Constellations, Studio Theatre), the Dame Joan Sutherland Award and the Ron Van Lieu Yale School of Drama Scholarship.

 

Lily was the 2020 Japan Foundation delegate for Australia for the Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting (TPAM) in Yokohama. She is currently a peer reviewer for Australia Council for the Arts and the American Australian Association.

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