At a ceremony last night, 21 May, Griffin Theatre Company announced the winner of the 2025 Griffin Award. Playwright Michele Lee has taken home the award for her work Snappy.

Snappy is “about a woman called Bea who’s having the greatest romance of her life, or a midlife crisis – or maybe a bit of both. She’s swinging between putting her needs first and putting other people’s needs first,” said Lee.

“I think a lot of women can relate, but in Snappy, it’s a more condensed, pressure-cooker version.”

Michele Lee (centre) with Kate Harrison, the Chair of the Copyright Agency and Griffin’s Declan Greene. Photo © Alice Boshell

Lee is a Hmong-Australian writer working across theatre, live art, audio and screen. Her work delves into the concept of otherness and multi-cultural identity and platforms the stories of marginalised identities.

Her body of work includes the full-length works Security and Rice, the latter of which won the 2016–17 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Drama and the Australian Writers’ Guild Best Original Stage Play. She received five 2021 Green Room Award nominations for her play Single Ladies, currently under commission with Melbourne Theatre Company,...