Lily Hensby (she/they) is a writer, comedian, director and actor. She is from Dharawal Country and works between Gadigal Land and Naarm. Lily is co-artistic director of Hensby & Beckett Productions with creative partner, Lotte Beckett.

She has written and performed Hittin’ It Big (Old Fitz Theatre, 2024), A FINE LINE (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2023), We're New Here (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2023) and STALLS (ArtsLab, 2020). She has written and directed Last Time (The Motley Bauhaus, 2023), Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy (Shopfront, 2019), and co-wrote and co-directed D.O.A with Mark Rogers (Shopfront, 2019). She directed The Magnificent, Terrible Hottie Avery by Tasnim Hossain (Shopfront, 2018). She has acted in The Used Car by Orlagh Billing (short film, 2024), Tom William Mitchell by Mark Rogers (Merrigong Theatre Company, 2018), Organs! by Nicole Pingon (Shopfront, 2018) and Love & Information by Caryl Churchill (PACT, 2017). 

Lily’s play Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy is published with Australian Plays Transform and her monologue This is Yours is published in This Was Urgent Yesterday by Currency Press. This is Yours also won the 2023 Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre’s The Man in the Park monologue competition. In 2024, Hensby & Beckett were shortlisted for the Katie Lees Fellowship at Flight Path Theatre and long-listed (top 10) for the Martin-Lysicrates Prize. In 2023, Lily began producing Space Jam, a monthly improv jam for all women, non-binary and gender diverse people at The Improv Conspiracy (TIC) in Melbourne. Lily is also a house performer at TIC and is also in the house sketch team, Churn. In 2020, she was a writer in residence for Sydney Fringe Festival as part of the Art in Isolation program. In 2019, she was one of 14 writers selected nationally to participate in Writing Place SA for ATYP and Carclew SA. In 2017, Lily became an associate artist of re:group performance collective.

Lily holds a Bachelor of Performance and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) from the University of Wollongong.  

She is also a Capricorn and has a cat named Jack Black. This year she started running and is obsessed with it, completing 2 half-marathons and the City2Surf!