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Nakkiah Lui Nakkiah Lui i(A147242 works by)
Born: Established: 1991 Mount Druitt, Blacktown area, Sydney Outer West, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Torres Strait Islander ; Aboriginal Kamilaroi
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BiographyHistory

Nakkiah Lui a playwright who grew up in Western Sydney and is the daughter of a Gamilaroi woman from Gunnedah and a Torres Strait Islander. As a playwright she had drawn from her own life and community in the Mount Druitt area, and wrote her first play whilst studying in Canada.

Nakkiah was the first recipient of both The Dreaming Award by The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council; and the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright award.

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form y separately published work icon Preppers ( dir. Steven McGregor ) Australia : Porchlight Films , 2021 21775553 2021 series - publisher film/TV humour

When a young Aboriginal woman flees a cataclysmic event in her personal life, she finds herself involved with a mismatched group of doomsday preppers.

2021 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Comedy Series
form y separately published work icon Total Control Black B*tch ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2019-2023 15284926 2019 series - publisher film/TV

'An unlikely national hero, Alex is catapulted into government in a cynical power play. Used, abandoned and underestimated, now she's on a path that will send the political establishment into meltdown.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2022 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2021 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series
2019 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series
Blackie Blackie Brown : The Traditional Owner of Death 2018 single work drama

'Reconciliation… or revenge?

'Somewhere in the Australian bush, mild-mannered archaeologist Dr Jacqueline Black is conducting a survey on a site intended for the new factory of a shadowy corporation. She’s under pressure to provide the all-clear, but when her dig uncovers a mass grave, she picks up a skull and is immediately over-powered by the spirit of her Aboriginal great-great-grandmother. Blackie Blackie Brown, cold-blooded vigilante, is born.

'In a no-holds-barred gore-fest, she’s going to kill all the descendants of the men who massacred her ancestors. White people, watch out. You could be one of them.

'Paying homage to blaxploitation movies, Blackie Blackie Brown features the work of Barkindji, Birri-Gubba illustrator Emily Johnson and animations by visual effects whiz-kids Oh Yeah Wow. Nakkiah Lui’s script matches perfectly the lo-fi, hi-camp style of director Declan Greene (Sisters Grimm’s Calpurnia Descending).

'With break-out newcomer Megan Wilding in the title role, and the ever-hilarious Ash Flanders playing every white person she needs to kill, this two-hander is a wild ride that will have you laughing out loud while squirming in your seat.

'All in all, it’s precisely the violent and uncompromising take-down that our country’s genocidal history had coming.'

Source: STC.

2019 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best Production of a Play
2019 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best Direction of a Play
2019 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best New Australian Work
2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Production : Theatre - Companies
2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
2018 shortlisted Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Australian Work
2018 shortlisted Sydney Theatre Awards Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production
2018 shortlisted Sydney Theatre Awards Best Mainstage Production
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