19/08/2026
It’s summer. November 2024. Five friends - a politician’s son, a lawyer’s daughter, a demon t***k, a Valley socialite, and a hippie banished from Byron - go to spend a week at a beach house in Noosa. Lounging by the pool on their first day, they notice the blinds of the empty house next door rustling. Most think nothing of it - it’ll be the cleaner, a stray gust of wind, nothing remarkable. That night, though, there’s a green light in the window. Tiny, but present. They can’t let it go, no matter how hard they try to ignore it. Who’s in the house next door? What do they want? What have they caught on camera?
We are excited that Ten Eighty is part of the Astra Nova 2026 program.
Matt is a writer, actor and producer based in Meanjin/Brisbane. He’s been involved with the Australian Theatre for Young People’s 2024 Fresh Ink mentoring program, and the 2023 Assembly program with La Boite. Written work for the stage includes The Ram (2025) Power Hungry Animals and Hushtone (2024), Call Me When You Get This (2024), Przepraszam (2023), Naughty Ceiling (2023), A Simple Little Knot (2022), Temper Temper (2021) and A Ringing in My Ear (2019).
Mentoring Matt is the fabulous Rhumer. Rhumer Diball is a freelance dramaturg based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice spans new play development and adaptations, devising, dance, immersive and interactive theatre, circus, and physical theatre. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, where she is writing her thesis on visualising dramaturgy.
We are excited to see where they take this great new work!
