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Lily Hensby (she/they) is a comedian, published playwright, actor, director and theatre-maker. She is from Dharawal Country and works between Gadigal Land and Naarm. She is also co-artistic director of Hensby & Beckett Productions.
She has written and performed A FINE LINE (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2023) & We're New Here (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2023) with creative partner, Lotte Beckett. She has written and directed Last Time (The Motley Bauhaus, 2023), STALLS (ArtsLab, 2020), Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy (Shopfront, 2019), and co-wrote and co-directed D.O.A with Mark Rogers (Shopfront, 2019). She directed The Magnificent, Terrible Hottie Avery by Tasnim Hossain (Shopfront, 2018). She has performed in Tom William Mitchell by Mark Rogers (Merrigong Theatre Company, 2018), Organs! by Nicole Pingon (Shopfront Arts Co Op, 2018), Love & Information by Caryl Churchill (PACT, 2017). In April 2023, Hensby & Beckett had a slot in MICF's Festival Club as part of their character sketch night.
Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy is published with Australian Plays Transform and her monologue This is Yours is published in This Was Urgent Yesterday by Currency Press. This is Yours also won the 2023 Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre’s The Man in the Park monologue competition. In 2024, Hensby & Beckett were shortlisted for the Katie Lees Fellowship at Flight Path Theatre. In 2023, Lily began producing Space Jam, a monthly improv jam for all women, non-binary and gender diverse people at The Improv Conspiracy (TIC) in Melbourne. Lily is also a house performer at TIC and is also in the house sketch team, Churn. In 2020, she was a writer in residence for Sydney Fringe Festival as part of the Art in Isolation program. In 2019, she was one of 14 writers selected nationally to participate in Writing Place SA for ATYP and Carclew SA. In 2017, Lily became an associate artist of re:group performance collective.
Lily holds a Bachelor of Performance and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) from the University of Wollongong.