About the show
Three women stand over a body. What just happened?
Set in a parched outback town, The Bleeding Tree begins with a gunshot. A mother and her daughters have killed the man who terrorised them, and now they grapple with fear, guilt and something that feels uncomfortably like relief, while the town looks the other way. By turns brutal, lyrical and darkly funny, this searing revenge tale reimagines Australian gothic through a fierce, contemporary lens. Hailed as one of the most important Australian plays of the decade, it has won major national awards and toured widely since its premiere at Griffin Theatre Company.
A landmark Australian play, strikingly staged. Don’t look away.
Dino Dimitriades
Dino Dimitriadis is a multi-award-winning director, dramaturg and creative producer, working across theatre, dance, music, film, fashion and experimental performance. Their practice centres queer performance, trans dramaturgies and intersectional storytelling, building new forms and platforms that shift how stages hold bodies and ideas.
Dino has worked widely as a director, recognised for their distinct visual language and cross-disciplinary approach. Their work spans mainstages, national tours, large-scale music events, intimate queer works, and experimental forms.
In 2025, they co-directed the Australian revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, premiering in Adelaide Festival and touring to RISING Melbourne and Carrigaeworks Sydney. They directed De Profundis with Paul Capsis and co-created and directed NGAIIRE: PAIA for WOMAD Adelaide and Vivid Sydney at Carriageworks. In 2024, they directed the sold-out national tour of Travis Alabanza’s Overflow, the first mainstage Australian theatre work to feature an all-trans cast and creative team. The production received multiple 5-star reviews and critical acclaim. The tour also launched Australia’s first Trans Theatre Symposium.
Dino has won Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Director for their revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Parts I & II, and for Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses. In 2023 they directed the Australian premiere of Tarrel Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy as part of Sydney World Pride and co-created Jaguar Jonze: The Art of Broken Pieces, which played to a sold-out Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live. Other directing credits include: Cleansed, Sarah Kane (4 Sydney Theatre Award Nominations including Best Director and Best Production); Nicol & Ford Runway – Australian Fashion Week (2022-2025 collections); Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca; Darkness (New Theatricals); Lady Tabouli, James Elazzi (National Theatre of Parramatta); The Girl / The Woman, Randa Sayed; Doubt: A Parable, John Patrick Shanley; and Closer, Patrick Marber. Dino’s APOCALYPSE project (2010-2020) presented 18 projects with more than 200 collaborators.
Dino has several live and films works in development and is currently living on unceded Gadigal land.
To be advised.
Subject to change during the development of a production.
The Company
Principal Cast (in order of appearance)
Rashie Kase
Ooen-s’tae Johnson
Zara Stibbard
Director: Dino Dimitriades*
Costume, Set & Props Designer: Joey McKenzie
Lighting Designer:
Sound Designer: Reyn Penrose
Assistant Director: Kathryn Collins
Assistant Director: Saint Clair
Production Manager: Jay Cairns
Stage Manager: Indiana Jones
Props Supervisor: Millie Rollason
Head Electrician: Kaia Krause
Key
*Guest Artist
** NIDA Staff