10 June 2026
After years of acting for the camera, Belinda Bromilow is making a highly anticipated return to the theatre as Robyn, in the upcoming production of The Roommate at The Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli. Starring alongside Lucy Bell, Bromilow is ready to grace the stage once more, marking a full circle moment.
Bromilow’s acting journey began early in life and took off while she briefly pursued a degree in architecture. The desire to be on the stage was undeniable: “I decided to study architecture because I thought I should do something proper so to speak. But about sort of six months into that, I realised there wasn’t going to be any time to do theatre and I was really missing it.” Her early major break came in STC production Boy Gets Girl working alongside Miranda and Barry Otto
Over the last 15 to 20 years, Bromilow has balanced her work across mediums, with the past decade focusing primarily on television. Her main roles have included as Aunt Elizabeth in the satirical period comedy-drama The Great, Betty Bell in the medical drama series Doctor Doctor, and Jonquil Payne in the supernatural comedy-drama Spirited. Throughout her career she has also featured in legendary Australia shows such as Packed to the Rafters, Rake, McLeod’s Daughters and All Saints.
Her upcoming role in The Roommate will be her first theatre production in over a decade “So it’s pretty terrifying in a great way.” says Bromilow.
The play follows a recently divorced Sharon (Lucy Bell), a quiet Iowa homebody who takes in mysterious, fast-talking housemate Robyn (Bromilow) from New York to help pay the bills. As the two women navigate living together, Sharon’s life gets a serious shake-up, opening up the relationship between the two characters.
To prepare for this intense two-person play, Bromilow and co-star Lucy Bell found a creative way to build chemistry that mirrored the play’s premise. “She invited me over to her house and that was kind of great and very fitting because I’d never been to her house, I didn’t know her. So I had this sort of experience of being in someone else’s space and getting to know them.”
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The play explores the complexities of identity and friendship, particularly for women in middle age. Bromilow is focused on bringing nuance to her character “You don’t want to play a caricature of someone like people contain multitudes and they contain lots of contradictory elements to them,” she explains. “It asks questions about the roles of women once their children have grown up and moved out… it asks or explores female friendship and what that is and what that can give you that other relationships don’t.”
This production is the Australian premiere of The Roommate and will run from 19 June to 25 July 2026.