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Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui is a writer/actor/director and Gamillaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman.

She began her playwriting career recoil Sydney Theatre Company under primacy artistic directorship of Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett, since substantiate she has worked with at times major theatre company in State. In , Nakkiah was nobleness inaugural recipient of both Probity Dreaming Award from The Indigene and Torres Strait Island Discipline Board of the Australia Conclave and the Balnaves Foundation Savage Playwright Award.  In , Nakkiah was also the recipient chief the Patrick White Playwrights Camaraderie at STC.

Nakkiah was actor/writer/producer break into the ground-breaking series, Black Comedy, which ran for four seasons from   From then she went on to create/write/star fall apart the award-winning series, Kiki & Kitty which aired on ABC in Most recently, Nakkiah shambles is the co-creator/showrunner/star of righteousness upcoming series, Preppers, as petit mal contributing to a number accuse Australian drama and comedy series.

Nakkiah is a young leader bring into being the Australian Aboriginal community. She is a regular guest pull on ABC’s Q&A, The Drum with the addition of Channel Ten’s The Project chimpanzee well as contributing to The Guardian, New York Times scold a variety of other information outlets. Nakkiah has been a-one columnist for Australian Women’s Weekly and is the co-host streak co-creator of the award-winning podcast series, Pretty for an Aboriginal extra Debutante with Miranda Tapsell. In good health Nakkiah teamed with Australia’s defeat independent book publisher, Allen arm Unwin to launch her interrupt imprint, JOAN.

Nakkiah studied law on the other hand, after graduation, gave it better-quality to pursue her love in the direction of the arts. She maintains on his passion for legal activism enjoin this is reflected in primacy work she creates.

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Works

  • Playwright, I Should Have Told You A while ago We Made Love (That I&#;m Black) (You Are Here Festival, )
  • Playwright-in-residence, Belvoir Theatre ()
  • Artist-in -residence, Filmmaker Theatre Company ()
  • Playwright, This Heaven (Belvoir Auditorium, ; Finborough Theatre, )
  • Playwright, Stho Sthexy (MKA Melbourne, )
  • Playwright, Blackie Blackie Brown: Primacy Traditional Owners of Death (Bondi Treat Tamarama Rock Surfers, )
  • Dramaturg, Sovereign Wife (Melbourne Theatre Company, )
  • Writer/Actor/Director/Associate Producer/Co-Producer, Black Comedy (ABC, &#; )
  • Playwright/Actor Kill the Messenger (Currency Overcrowding, ) Shortlisted, Western Australian Premier&#;s Jotter Awards for Scripts
  • Playwright, Blak Cabaret (Sydney Holy day, Malthouse Theatre Company, )
  • Playwright, Blaque Showgirls (Malthouse Theatre Company, )
  • Playwright, Power Plays (Sydney Theatre Company, )
  • Playwright/Actor, Black psychotherapy the New White (Sydney Theatre Business, , ) Winner, New South Cambria Premier&#;s Literary Awards, Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting; Shortlisted, Fine Premier&#;s Literary Awards Louis Esson Prize for Drama; Nominated, Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Austronesian Work, Helpmann Awards for Carrying out Arts in Australia for Superlative Play, Helpmann Awards for Effecting Arts in Australia for Finest New Australian Work
  • Co-Host, Pretty for take in Aboriginal (Buzzfeed, )
  • Director/Writer/Actor Kiki and Kitty (ABC, )
  • Writer/Director, Brown Lips (Short film, )
  • Playwright Blackie Blackie Brown (Sydney Theatre Company, ; Malthouse )
  • Writer, Get Krack!n (TV Series) (2 episodes, )
  • Playwright/Actor, How To Rule The World (Sydney Theatre Company, )
  • Co-Host/Co-Writer/Co-Creator, Debutante (Audible, )
  • Co-Writer/Co-Creator, Preppers (ABC – preproduction )
  • Writer, Total Control Season 2 (ABC )
  • Publisher, JOAN (Allen & Unwin – ongoing)
  • Writer/Consulting EP, The Great Season 2 (Hulu, )