Growing up amid mountains, Tasmanian devils and rare birds on a bushland property in the small town of Dysart in the Apple Isle’s Southern Midlands, actor and playwright Ryan Enniss “could scream into the wild blue yonder and no one would hear you,” he recalls.
“I miss going out and seeing the stars rather than the light pollution,” laughs the 25-year-old, who has lived in Sydney since heading north to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Ryan Enniss wins Queensland Premiers Award. Photo supplied.
Enniss, whose play Drizzle Boy is about to premiere at Queensland Theatre after winning the 2022–23 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, describes himself as “one of the shyest people ever”.
“I always got picked on at school and never really felt super-comfortable in social situations,” he says. “But I could perform these jokes and make people laugh, enough so nobody really questioned whether I was on the spectrum or not.”
Drizzle Boy, billed as a “biting satire blending magical realism with a Kafkaesque journey of self-discovery”, is clearly semi-autobiographical. The play is about a young man “trying to make his way in a world...
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