Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui
Occupation Writer, Actor
Notable work Black Comedy, Kill The Messenger, Black Is The New White

Nakkiah Lui is an Australian writer and actor and is a young leader in the Australian Aboriginal community.[1][2] She is a Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman.

Career

Lui is co-writer and star of Black Comedy,[3][4] a television program on the ABC, and a columnist for Australian Women's Weekly.

From 2012 to 2014 she was playwright-in-residence for Sydney's Belvoir Theatre and in 2013 she was the artist-in-residence for the Griffin Theatre.

Her work includes: This Heaven (2013), I Should Have Told You Before We Made Love (That I’m Black) (2012), Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Ownersof Death (2013), Kill the Messenger (2015)[5] and Power Plays (2016).[6]

Lui has also hosted Radio National’s Awaye and NAIDOC Evenings for ABC Local Radio, and has appeared on Q&A [7] and The Drum on ABC.

Awards

In 2012 Lui was awarded the Dreaming Award by The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council.

References

  1. ↑ Spring, Alexandra (26 January 2015). "Nakkiah Lui: I don’t like the word leader, especially when used about me". Retrieved 26 February 2017 – via The Guardian.
  2. ↑ "As an Aboriginal teen I thought about killing myself every day". 9 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017 – via The Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Black Comedy: How Indigenous humour is driving social change". abc.net.au. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "They’re a funny mob". theaustralian.com.au. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Kill the Messenger review (Belvoir, Sydney) - Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.". dailyreview.com.au. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Blake, Elissa (20 September 2016). "Playwright Nakkiah Lui puts Q&A under the spotlight in STC's Power Plays". smh.com.au. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Indigenous actress Nakkiah Lui thought she was to blame for the domestic violence she suffered.". mamamia.com.au. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
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