Spring has sprung and the sun is shining in Barrett House, thank golly I’m an artist in residence! Join myself, Sepa Sama and Luanne Mitchelmore this Sunday for our open studios and artist talks. I’ll be chatting writing, along with other elements of my practice like petting stray cats, standing on my head, and making to-do lists I will never complete.
Barrett House Studios in Randwick, 2-4pm. Free ticket link in bio!
📸: Mark Bond
Supremely grateful to have my short play ‘Milk Bottle Challenge’ published and performed as a part of ATYP’s 2025 Intersection festival.
A big thank you to the schools and to the ATYP team, including director extraordinaire @georgepeterkemp , the world’s best dramaturg @janefitzgerald42 , @lgtreston for his mentorship/drag name suggestions, and @haydentonazzi for running the whole shebang. Also a massive thank you to milk - you will always have a special place in my heart 🐄🍼🥹.
Introducing our Playwright Ruby Blinkhorn!
And let me tell you, It should be a sin to be this hot AND funny 🥵
Ruby found out about Cadaver Synod, the Pope who was put on trial posthumously, after googling “craziest things that have happened” and her (mostly kind of true) reimagining is funny, sexy and cutting - the church would absolutely hate it.
CADAVER SYNOD by Ruby Blinkhorn .
Directed by Mathew Lee.
27 May to 6 June at KXT on Broadway.
Presented by NIDA in association with KXT bAKEHOUSE @kxt_bakehouse (/kxt_bakehouse/)
🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE - ticket link in bio.
🕊️ CADAVER SYNOD 🕊️
By Ruby Blinkhorn
Directed by Mathew Lee
27 May to 6 June at KXT on Broadway
Presented by NIDA in association with KXT bAKEHOUSE @kxt_bakehouse
This bold debut by Ruby Blinkhorn teeters on a knife-edge between tragedy and hilarity, simultaneously theatricalising the campness of Catholicism and criticising institutional abuses of power. It’s funny, sexy and cutting - the church would absolutely hate it.
In 897 AD, Rome, newly elected Pope Stephen is haunted by the legacy of his predecessor, Formosus, whose corrupt papacy decimated the Church’s public image.
Amidst pressures from the King of Italy, a suspicious number of cardinals “falling” down the Vatican stairs, and the antics of horny priests, Pope Stephen faces an impossible dilemma: either bring the corpse of Formosus to trial posthumously and face eternal damnation, or stay faithful and risk political assassination. What ensues is a bloody crescendo of chaos, betrayal and several dead pigeons.
Like all good parables, some of this actually happened.
🎟️ EARLY BIRD TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE - ticket link in bio.
📷 photography by @_patricks_world_
Cadaver Synod By Ruby Blinkhorn
A (FREE) 2025 New Works Festival Reading
1 September 2025 8:30PM
“Another Cardinal lost to a slippery staircase. We’re dropping like flies.”
This bold new play by Ruby Blinkhorn teeters on a knife-edge between tragedy and hilarity, theatricalising the campness of Catholicism, while criticising institutional abuses of power. It's funny, sexy, and cutting; the church would absolutely hate it.
PLAYWRIGHT: Ruby Blinkhorn; DIRECTOR: Zoë Hollyoak; PRODUCER: Morgan Owen; CAST: Andrew Fraser, Esha Jessy, Harry Reid, Leon Walshe, Nat Jobe, Robert Miniter
Read more and book your FREE tix at .au/event/cadaver-synod-by-ruby-blinkhorn-nwf-reading-MzM2MTM
Stoked to have been part of “Dangerous When Wet”, a new musical-in-progress that (shockingly) has nothing to do with my libido 🏊♀️.
Thank you to the fabulous creative team, to @randwickcouncil , and to the 1912 divas who swam so AKAC could run. Special s/o to Kate, who helped me fall in love with swimming, you're the real-life Mina to my Fanny 🫶.
Part of Randwick City Council’s Town Hall Takeover Program, 2025. Photographs: Jacquie Manning.
