Multi-award winning disobedient woman. Stumbling towards death in eyelash extensions.

 

Sheridan gained widespread acclaim when she originated the role of Tessa in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie. She earned Best Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards, winning again in 2024 for her Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (RedLine Productions). Her stage credits are broad and impressive, including Stop Girl, Calamity Jane (Belvoir), Jump for Jordan and Kill Climate Deniers (Griffin), Muriels Wedding (STC) as well as The Beast, The Speechmaker, and North by Northwest (MTC).

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Recently, she co-wrote the acclaimed musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career for Melbourne Theatre Company, which won five Green Room Awards, including Best New Writing. She wrote and directed the sell-out A Model Murder for 2024 Sydney Festival in the Darlinghurst Supreme Court building, and created and performed Amplified: The Rock & Rage of Chrissy Amphlett for RISING 2025.

 

Her musical Songs for the Fallen, earned Best Musical and Outstanding Actress at the New York Music Theatre Festival and a Green Room Award, and was performed across major festivals in Australia and New Zealand. She directed Dubbo Championship Wrestling at Hayes Theatre (earning a Best Director nomination) and the upcoming Phar Lap. In 2022, she received the Create NSW Fellowship to develop her new musical The Flash Mob for MTC, and is a creating a new work on The Petrov Affair for Canberra Theatre.

 

In recognition of her significant contributions to theatre, the Sydney Theatre Company named her their 2025 Patrick White Fellow, a distinguished role that will see her develop a new work and mentor emerging writers as part of STC’s Watershed program.

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