We develop new Australian writing and contemporary adaptations of classical texts through a model that integrates performance, research, accessibility, and public discourse. The company was established in 2025 to formalise an existing body of work already being made across independent theatre, criticism, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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We champion new writing, we believe in an ontology of events, and we refuse the administered assumption that culture is what happens when funding arrives. If you are reading this, the company already exists; the question is whether the conditions for its ongoing existence can be made structurally possible.

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Sydney Dramaturgical has applied to Creative Australia for funding to deliver a five-work program from October 2026 to April 2028

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Sydney Dramaturgical has applied to Creative Australia for funding to deliver a five-work program from October 2026 to April 2028

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Who we are

What is Sydney Dramaturgical Company?

Sydney Dramaturgical Company is an independent producing organisation based in Sydney, working on Gadigal and Wangal land. The company was established in 2025 by founding producer Aubrey Wang—a writer and theatre-maker interested in psychoanalysis, the aesthetics of bureaucracy, and the limits of communication—to formalise an existing body of work spanning new Australian writing, contemporary adaptations of classical texts, and Auslan-integrated performance. Within Sydney's theatre ecology, the company operates as a cross-sector platform: productions are accompanied by artist–scholar lectures, AI and cultural policy panels, interdisciplinary symposia, and civic dialogue that convenes practitioners from academia, technology, and the arts. The company exists as a legal entity to formalise what was already happening—writing, producing, theorising, and curating moments of collapse, communion, and choreographed failure. It is a small, independent theatre group making new work for live audiences, held together by spreadsheets, group chats, and a lot of last-minute printing. It believes theatre cannot be automated and insists on the singular event—each performance a one-time arrangement of bodies, light, air, and thought.

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Activities

What kind of work does Sydney Dramaturgical make?

The company produces mainstage productions, salon-scale studio works, development labs, and public discourse programming. In its inaugural 2025 Sydney Fringe season it presented four works across four venues. These were: Antigone!, a trilingual adaptation in English, Attic Greek, and Auslan featuring Deaf performer James Kerwin and onstage Auslan interpretation by Paul Sorauer, with live Greek lyre composition by Amber Allayiotis; Booba, a Noh-inspired work on immigration, identity, and long-distance relationships under neoliberalism, directed by Ziggy Lumley Tow; Adoration Gods, an experimental autofiction two-hander exploring speech as magic, violence, and artifice; and the Australian premiere of Matthew Gasda's Doomers, a dramatisation of the OpenAI boardroom crisis, staged across Tom Mann Theatre and Two80 Cabaret over thirty days of Sydney Fringe and accompanied by a public AI industry panel convening cybersecurity, neuroscience, and digital innovation. A fifth work, Chinese Restaurant, was developed in Melbourne at the Chinese Museum. Beyond production, the company publishes dramaturgical research, commissions essays, and maintains an ongoing critical writing practice currently based between Sydney and New York City.

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Support Team

How do I reach your support team directly?

Yes. Sydney Dramaturgical's founding producer Aubrey Wang writes independent reviews and dramaturgical criticism, currently working from New York City in partnership with the Centre for Theatre Research. Companies, festivals, producers, and publications can commission reviews by emailing aubrey@sydneydramaturgical.com. The same rigour and interdisciplinary approach that structures the company's theatrical productions—spanning classical adaptation, translational performance, and contemporary political drama—informs every piece of critical writing.

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