Fleur Kilpatrick is an award-winning playwright, director, community arts and cultural development worker and educator living and working on Erawirrung Country.

From 2021-2024 Fleur was the Artistic Director of Riverland Youth Theatre, working to empower her community and create safe spaces for vulnerable young people. Works made in this time include: Forts Renmark and Barmera (pillow fort play projects with Riverland children), The Ally Awards (empowering queer teens to say what they want from their schools and to celebrate their champions) and Allied Arts Festival, commissioning artists and allied health workers to create a suite of works for children with disabilities.

She formed the Teen Ensemble in 2022 and wrote and directed The Bacchae in 2024, which won the Adelaide Fringe Youth Award. She wrote and directed the Ensemble’s second production, War of the Worlds at Adelaide Festival in 2025, a collaboration spanning over 1000kms of mallee scrub and desert and three regional theatre companies.

Fleur’s plays have won awards including the 2018 Max Afford Playwrights Award (Whale) and 2016 Jill Blewett Award (Blessed). Her writing have been produced by State Theatre Company of South Australia (Terrestrial), Co Opera (Daphne) and more and have toured venues of all shapes and sizes around Australia. She is as proud of the works performed in kindergartens, nursing homes, on zoom, in living rooms, up trees and in observatories as she is of the show that have been on big stages.

She was a lecturer in theatre and performance at Monash University until 2020, teaching playwriting, theatre and music theatre history and coordinating many units. As part of this role, she commissioned and co-created work made with and for vision impaired audiences, kindergarteners and aged care facilities. In 2020, the Monash Student’s Association awarded her for her excellence in teaching and student care during covid.

She can be contacted via email at fleurskilpatrick@gmail.com.

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Performed works:

War of the Worlds (2025 Riverland Youth Theatre, D’Faces and Arena Theatre)

The Bacchae (2024 Riverland Youth Theatre)

Rebel (2022 Lab Kelpie)

Whale (2019 Fleur Kilpatrick and Katrina Cornwell)

Daphne (2019 Co-Opera)

Terrestrial (2018 State Theatre Company of South Australia)

Blessed (2016 Poppyseed Theatre Festival)

Slaughterhouse Five (2015 and 2019 MUST Season)

Welcome to Nowhere (2015 CTP at Malthouse Theatre)

Yours the Face (2018 LZA/Blood Moon Theatre / 2015 Theatre Works Flight Festival / 2015 Perth Fringe Festival / 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival)

Insomnia Cat Came To Stay (2013 Brisbane Festival / 2013 Malthouse Theatre / 2013 Perth Fringeworld Festival / 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival, / 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival / 2011 Crack Theatre Festival)

Awake (2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival / 2012 La Mama Summer Season) 

Skinhouse (2011 Adelaide Fringe Festival / 2011 La Mama Summer Season)

Our Bodies And What Happens When They Get Together (2010 VCA)

iexist.com (as 'I Must Not Theatre', 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival)

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Headshot by Sarah Walker and header photo by Sophie McPike.