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Wayne Blair Wayne Blair i(A105963 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Butchulla/Batjala/Badtjala
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BiographyHistory

Dancer, writer, comedian, film and theatre director and actor, Wayne Blair graduated from university in 1997. Since graduating, Blair has worked with several theatres (including Bangarra Dance Theatre), film and television productions. Blair portrayed Othello for the Bell Shakespeare Company. He directed short films: Black Talk (2002), and The Djarn Djarns (2005). Blair starred in Shifting Sands - Grace (1998) and Mullet (2001). In 2008, Blair was appointed the Artistic Associate of Belvoir St Theatre.

In 2012, Blair was nominated for an AACTA Award, Best Direction, for The Sapphires.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other work by Wayne Blair include:

    2015: Septembers of Shiraz : Director (2015)

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Firestarter : The Story of Bangarra ( dir. Wayne Blair et. al. )agent Australia : In Films , 2020 20716459 2020 single work film/TV

'Firestarter will mark the 30th anniversary of Australia’s most iconic performing arts company: Bangarra Dance Theatre. Told through the personal family story of its celebrated and longstanding artistic director, Stephen Page.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2022 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Documentary
2022 highly commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award
2021 nominated AWGIE Awards Documentary Award Public Broadcast or Exhibition
2021 nominated AIDC Awards Best Feature Documentary
2020 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Documentary
y separately published work icon Sugarland 2014 South Brisbane : Playlab , 2014 7682403 2014 single work drama

'Sugarland provides a glimpse into a teenage Australia that feels like a foreign country. This haunting new play will make you pause, make you smile, make you wonder how much can be real.

'Erica's Dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years. Now she's in year eleven she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway. Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out.

'The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.'(Publication summary)

2016 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best Regional Touring Production
2015 nominated AWGIE Awards Stage Award Theatre for Young People
2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
form y separately published work icon Redfern Now ( dir. Catriona McKenzie et. al. )agent Australia : ABC Television Screen Australia Blackfella Films , 2012-2013 Z1750518 2012 series - publisher film/TV

Redfern Now is 'the first contemporary TV drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.'

Source: ABC Television website.

2014 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2013 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series For Season Two
2013 winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards Television Show of the Year
2013 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2012 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series
2014 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards The Kate Challis RAKA Award for the episode 'Sweet Spot'.
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