La Mama’s 2025 Residencies

In 2025, La Mama will temporarily pause our regular programming to concentrate on strengthening our operations. This review will ensure that we continue to be viable, sustainable, and relevant in the years ahead.

During this period, we remain committed to supporting independent artists through our 2025 Residency Program. These two-week residencies, held at either HQ or the Courthouse, will provide artists with the space to progress work, develop ideas and play. While public performance seasons are not part of the program, each residency is required to culminate in an showing of the work developed.

Update 2025:

There was extraordinary demand for our 2025 La Mama Residencies, with difficult choices having to be made. In order to increase the opportunities to even more projects than initially intended, we decided to extend the available space by including our Rehearsal Hub for use across the year. 

We’re pleased to welcome seventy-six La Mama Residencies across 2025. We have given the lead artists listed below the space in kind at either HQ, the Courthouse or La Mama’s Rehearsal Hub to develop their new works for two weeks each (approx value $10,000). 

We’re thrilled that in the year of our development as an organisation, we are surrounded by artists doing the same, and wish each of them all the best in their exploring.

Public showings at the end of each of the developments will be held every second Friday beginning Friday February 14; Courthouse at 3.30pm, Rehearsal Hub at 4pm, HQ at 4.30pm.

HQ

Pauline Sherlock “Psychopath School”

Murdoch Keane “Superstardom at last”

Matthew Connell “Untitled – New Work by Dan Spielman & Ariette Taylor”

Sandra Long “How I Survived a Bot Attack, Stumbling through a Sea of Click Farms”

Megan Twycross “STUCK” 

Vanessa O’Neill “The Greer Effect” 

Solomon Rumble “Oooo What is This Little Thing Over Here?”

Furball Theatre “The Birds” 

Hazel Pigrum – University of Melbourne UHT Award – “AUTOMATED”

Roisin Wallace “FEMOID. – Vixen theatre company”

Keegan Bell “Feathered Body Perpetual Fall”

Robert Lewis and Dan Graham “Hundreds and Thousands (working title)”

Cohan “The Irreducible”

Honor Webster-Mannison “Cow Play” 

Aquilla Sorensen “Hell On Earth”

Emina Ashman “Florescence”

Stella Webster “Ways to Drown a Fish” 

James Jackson “The Water Done Gone”  

AYA “Ma (間)” 

Sheanna Parker Russon “A Trans Woman’s Guide to Manhood”

Dora Abrahams “Brides”

Francesco Mandarino & Zoe Anastasiou – “Ballet For Boys”

COURTHOUSE

Laurence Strangio “HEDDA [alone]” 

Zadie McCracken, Ella Crowley & Julian Smith-Guard “Everybody Wants to be Emma: the Musical”

Madelaine Nunn “The Kick” 

Glenn Shea “Trilogy” 

Isabel Knight “In Train”

Sophia Derkenne and Daphne Gerolymou Papadopoulos “Breadwinning” 

Daniel Witton “Cadence”

Natalie Frija “Montauciel and the Moon”   

Georgie Rootsey – Deakin Springboard Residency – “Honey, I’m Home”

Gabriel Partington “The Apple Tree”

Zoë Harlen “This Means War”

Pummel Squad “Chance be a Dame this Evening’   

Adam Fawcett “Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” 

Elbow Room (Marcel Dorney) “S A I N T S”  

R.Johns with Aliya Aboo “Journey of the True Self”

Tariro Mavondo  “Mother Wound in Seven Rooms” 

Rollercoaster Theatre “RED” 

Mark McDonald “We the Jury”

Roxanne McDonald and Sally McKenzie “PREOCCUPATION”  

Flick “GAG REFLEX”

Jorja Bentley “Case Notes”

Lyall Brooks “There Arose a Great Tempest”

REHEARSAL HUB

Ryan Stewart “KINDER”  

Jamila Main, Yasemin Sabuncu & Jessie Ngaio “Midsumma Pathways Group Residency”

Tim Sneddon “Foot Finger Face”

India Alessandra “For You, Always”

Sally Q Davies “Messier Objects”

Claire Frost “[Working Title] Echoes in the Algorithm” 

Jennifer Monk “Wing Attack, Here if you need”

Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou “Capitalism according to the Lilydale line”  

Hayley Edwards “Shitbag”  

Bridget Webster, Bridie Noonan and Oscar O’Brien “Worms and Conditions” 

Ben Brooker “The Sky King” 

Aslam Abdus-Samad “Words I Wish I Had” 

Cole Mckenna “Bless the Telephone”

Emilie Collyer “Post Doctoral Fallowship”

Cynda Beare “Sex Poems” 

Phoebe Anne Taylor “End Process”

Noemie Huttner-Koros & Andrew Sutherland “To Wander Off As Things Are Called To Order”

Maki Morita “Moon Child”

Kerith Manderson-Galvin “ACTION FIGURES”

Ben Grant “Wrong Way: Grow Back” 

Freddie Fitzpatrick-Lubowitz “On Saturday” 

Zack Lewin, “My First Sugar Daddy (Who Actually Looks Like My Dad)”

Emily Tomlins “Stranger” 

Tessa Nethercote Way “Backtrack”

Bronte Charlotte “Clementine and Pieces of Shit” 

Henry Kelly “We Make Friends with Karl Marx”

Heidi Everett “Lost Women”

Jem Lai “I’M TRYING TO HELP YOU, SILLY!”

Beth Paterson, Kat Yates “Welcome to My Egg Talk”

Pathways 2023 

Writing Intensive 2024

EMERGE 2024

La Mama is Australia’s home for raw, radical and relevant theatre; it creates a community where artists thrive, audiences connect and society prospers. 

Our mission is to empower artists, audiences and theatre-making. We do this with a belief and commitment to: complete artistic freedom; the healing power of art; amplifying less powerful voices; the potency of an intimate, personal experience and ensuring the future funding and freedom of Australian stories.