Ash Flanders is a multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter from sunny Melbourne.

His erotic Golden Girls fan fiction became the short film The Divine Decadence of Cheesecake, which played at Frameline, Out On Film, Mardi Gras Film Festival and LLFF Canada. He co-wrote the web series FRIENDLY (over 10K views) and has a slate of fresh screen projects in development. He recently adapted his live solo show End Of. into a TV pilot for Werner Productions.

In 2006, he and Declan Greene formed theatre company Sisters Grimm and together they have written over a dozen shows including Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Griffin Theatre), Little Mercy (STC), The Sovereign Wife (MTC), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse/STC), and Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC).

Other writing credits include being invited to present work for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, The Wheeler Centre’s Show of the Year, and Women of Letters, with his letter published in the book Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

As a solo writer/ performer Ash created the shows Meme Girls (Malthouse), Special Victim (Feast Festival), Playing to Win (Arts Centre Melbourne) and Ash Flanders is NOTHING, as well as the plays SS Metaphor and This Is Living, both commissioned by Malthouse Theatre. In 2024 Ash was selected to be playwright-in residence for the Athenaeum Group.