MERRIGONGX 2025 ARTISTS' PROGRAM
We are back for another year of exciting, independent theatre! Check out the four shows making their way to the production stage and read all about the projects in development.
Keep up with the world of MERRIGONGX by signing up for Made From Scratch, or reserving a spot to one of our shows.
Find out more: https://merrigong.com.au/merrigongx/merrigongx2025/
Yandha Djanbay (Go Slowly)
by Kirli Saunders
20 - 22 Feb
Yandha Djanbay presents a powerful meditation on resilience, connection, and healing. Fusing language with land, and intimate storytelling with audiovisual projection, this work honours proud Gunai woman and multi-disciplinary artist, Kirli Saunders’ relationship with Country as both balm and blessing in times of hardship.
Dog People
By Lucy Heffernan
19 - 21 Jun
Dog People is a new play about dogs and death… with songs. Tuning into the music of dogs, writer and performer Lucy Heffernan unleashes her inner animal, creating an exciting new work that explores themes of love, loyalty and loss.
Perhaps people aren’t that different from dogs after all?
Squatch Watch: LIVE
by Vaguely Adjacent
25 - 27 Sep
Coming to you live is ‘Squatch Watch’ the most acclaimed and highest rated cryptozoology podcast in Australia. Join Luke, Frank, Sophie and Nick as their decade of recording and research culminates in the most exciting live show you will ever see.
Public Access
by The Corinthian Food Store
23 - 25 Oct
From the award-winning minds at The Corinthian Food Store, Public Access is a new work set in an actual library about the role of public spaces in our increasingly privatised society. It’s about the places we go to be seen and heard, and who gets to decide what matters.
Reserve your spot now!
Supported Artists
A range of artists will be working in our venues throughout 2025 including:
Lachlan Grogan, Tegan Ware, Bonnie Curtis, Susie Fagan, Dead Fruit Theatre Co, Lilly Hensby & Lotte Beckett, Kingsley Reeve, Jordon Mahar, Siobhán Doran-Chaston, Cheryle Moore, Carla Yamine & Iain Whittaker, Stupid Theatre, Bradley Ward, Myfanwy Wild, Susan Kennedy.Â
MERRIGONGX is our annual artists' program. It focuses on supporting artists to take creative risks.
MERRIGONGX places artists and their practice at the centre of our community. From in-house creative developments to full-blown public presentations of new work, and everything in between, MERRIGONGX provides independent artists with financial, technical, marketing, artistic resources, and the opportunity to upskill in the areas of wellbeing, accessibility and creative business skills.