A Palawa playwright and dramaturg from the northeast of lutruwita/Tasmania, Dylan’s work explores Blak identities by pivoting narratives that are already part of our national consciousness to embolden Indigenous perspectives.

Most recently Dylan won the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2025 New Play Award for his play The Flood. Dylan is currently under commission at Malthouse Theatre and Griffin Theatre. His play Whitefella Yella Tree which premiered as part of Griffin’s 2022 season and is published by Currency Press is returning to the stage in 2025 transferring to the STC, La Boite and Monash Uni in Melbourne. Whitefella Yella Tree won the NSW Premiers Award Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting and the AWGIE award for Stage – Original and the David Williamson Prize. His play Ngadjung for Belco Arts Centre which he also directed premiered in 2022 and won the AWGIE award for Community and Youth Theatre. He was a member of Sydney Theatre Company’s Emerging Writers Group and with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Dylan trained as a dramaturg through the BlackWrights Program with Kamarra Bell-Wykes.

Dylan has written nine episodes of ABC’s Playschool and four episodes of ABC’s Reef School and has worked in a number of writers rooms in 2024. He also has a couple of screen projects in development.

In 2021, his play Milk premiered at The Street Theatre and won NSW Premiers Award Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting, the Victorian Premiers Award for Drama, the Canberra Critic’s Circle Award and the 2022 Kate Challis RAKA Award. The play was described as “a new and powerful development in Australian First Peoples’ theatre” (Canberra Critics’ Circle). Milk is published by Currency Press.

In 2020, his gothic revenge drama Way Back When won both the Griffin Award and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, was runner up for Shane & Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, highly commended for the Max Afford Award, and shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Drama Award and the Patrick White Playwrights Award. In 2022 it was shortlisted for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize in the UK. It was developed through Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s ‘Next in Line’ program with dramaturgy from Shari Sebbens and a cast including Ursula Yovich and Megan Wilding.

Other recent work include an upcoming production of an adaptation of Barbara Baynton’s The Chosen Vessel (The Street Theatre), The Camel (Fringe at the Edge of the World, 2020), Apprehended (ArtsACT Homefront Funding, 2020), Why am I a Fish? (Short+Sweet, 2020) and Blue: a misery play (The Street Theatre: First Seen Program, 2017). His short plays and other writing have appeared in Island Magazine (2020), BITE Magazine (2021), and an upcoming anthology published in the USA by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (2022).

Dylan studied drama at the Australian National University and the State University of New York.