LOURIS VAN DE GEER

​Writer/Director

Louris van de Geer is a playwright and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. She has been described as a “distinctive new voice" and her work as a "brilliant...study of human existence” by The Age.
 
Her film directorial debut, THE BODY (short, 2025) premiered at the Cannes’ Quinzaine des Cineastes and was called an “assured debut” by The Saturday Paper. THE BODY also screened at Stockholm International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Cinema Jove in Valencia, and many other national and international festivals. It has been distributed by Toujiang Distribution in China.
 
In 2024, Louris completed the Australian Writers’ Guild’s First Break Program and Creative Australia’s BR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. As a playwright, Louris has been commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and English Touring Theatre. She holds a Masters of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts, and her work has been shortlisted for the Griffin Award, Rodney Seaborn Award and the Edward Albee Scholarship.

Theatre credits include: an adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley’s THE WELL directed by Sarah Goodes in a staged reading as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s summer season; TUESDAY directed by Nell Ranney at Belvoir’s 25A; the world premiere of LOOKING GLASS directed by Susie Dee at fortyfivedownstairs; the Sydney premiere of TRIUMPH directed by Tessa Leong at UNSW; THE SON for Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric; the world premiere of TRIUMPH directed by Mark Prichard at fortyfivedownstairs; and HELLO THERE, WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU for Next Wave and ACMI.