Grace Malouf

Grace Malouf is an AACTA-nominated screenwriter, trained playwright and entertainment lawyer who writes twisted, darkly funny stories about agency, control and collapse. She holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from NIDA, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Law (Hons) from the University of Queensland, with exchange stints in Paris, Seoul and Dublin. Grace is a 2026 Griffin Studio Artist. She's been awarded the Katie Lees Fellowship for Playwriting, runner-up in ATYP's Blake Beckett Commission, a finalist for the Silver Gull Award, shortlisted for the Griffin Award, and longlisted for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award. Her plays have appeared at Storytellers Festival, Bondi Feast, NIDA's Festival of Emerging Artists and Anywhere Festival. This year, her play First Do No Harm will premiere at KXT on Broadway in NIDA's New Writers, New Works season. Her multi-award winning short film Writers in Love (dir. Sarah Giles) received an AACTA nomination. Grace was also a finalist in the AACTA/Screenworks Regional Landscapes Competition for her second feature Minors, currently in development with director Christopher Nelius. Grace received the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Creative Fellowship to complete a writer's retreat in Tuscany for her debut feature, The Plot. She also completed a Director's Attachment on Zombucha! (MIFF, 2025; Cannes Market, 2026; Raindance, 2026) under Claudia Dzienny. When she needs a dopamine hit, Grace posts ghastly little stories about her life on TikTok and Instagram (@gmalsdeadrats), which she sincerely hopes will never be used as evidence against her.