Blake Hohenhaus

2026 Hansen Graduate Dramaturg

Blake Hohenhaus is a Naarm-based dramaturg, theatre-maker, playwright, actor and facilitator. He is the co-founder of Brisbane-based collective Lunch Friend – whose debut production of 34 Scenes About the Weather won the 2023 Anywhere Festival Award for Best Theatre Production. As a dramaturg, Blake has worked with directors Katy Maudlin and Kate Sulan, and playwrights Sarah Matthews and Freddie Fitzpatrick-Lubowitz. Blake has created devised work alongside Pummel Squad and Pony Cam. As a writer, Blake has developed work through ATYP’s ‘National Studio and ‘Fresh Ink’, Dead Puppet Society’s ‘DPS Academy’, Playlab’s ‘Incubator’, and La Boite’s ‘Assembly’. Blake’s writing has been published in ‘Intersection: Dawn’ (Currency Press, 2024) and he co-edited 34 Scenes About The Weather (Playlab, 2025). He has been shortlisted for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize (2023), twice long-listed for ATYP’s Foundation Commission (2017, 2023), and was a 2025 finalist for Canberra Youth Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Commission. In 2017, Blake won Queensland Theatre’s Young Playwright’s Award (with Zoë Hulme-Peake). As an actor, Blake has performed in schools across QLD and NSW with Shake & Stir Theatre Co. and Mind Blank. He holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting & Theatre Studies) (USQ), and a Master of Theatre (Dramaturgy) (VCA).