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Jada Alberts Jada Alberts i(A151543 works by) (a.k.a. Jada Nampitjinpa Alberts)
Gender: Non-binary
Heritage: Aboriginal Bardi ; Aboriginal Larrakia ; Aboriginal Wardaman ; Aboriginal Yanyuwa / Yanuwa ; Philippine ; Dutch ; Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Indigenous performer, visual artist and educator from the Top End.

They come from the Yanyuwa, Larrakia, Wadaman and Bardi nations, and have Pilipino and Dutch heritage. Jada began their creative exploration as a musician, playing the piano from the age of 5 and teaching themselves to play guitar in their early teens.

During Jada's young life, their family moved for work, living in remote communities and rural towns from Broome, WA, to Yeuendemu, NT, and other places. Whilst living in Katherine, NT, Jada's father taught her to paint.

(Source: http://thinkanddotank.net.au/about/thinkdo-tank-team/jada-alberts/ )

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Notes

  • This author uses they/them pronouns.

Personal Awards

2020 finalist National Dreamtime Awards Arts and Entertainment Awards Actor of the Year
2016 inaugural winner Mona Brand Short Story Competition Emerging Writer
2013 winner Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award Alberts was awarded $20,000 to develop the script - 'Me & Jungali'

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon While the Men Are Away Australia : We Are Arcadia , 2023 25068793 2023 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction

'An 8-part queer, revisionist historical dramedy for SBS set in 1940s rural Australia. While the men are off fighting in WWII, the people who have been excluded from power suddenly find themselves running the show. Two Women’s Land Army recruits from Sydney arrive in the country and undergo a heady course in race relations, rural politics, spirituality, sex, and personal growth – oh, and farming.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2024 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Telefeature or Mini Series
y separately published work icon Brothers Wreck 2014 Sydney : Currency Press , 2014 7366477 2014 single work drama

'Mob can’t survive like that, you can’t survive like that. We gotta talk to each other, as hard as it is, ’cause I guarantee you, that phone will ring and you’ll have to say goodbye again.

'This beautiful little play is about life.

'It begins with a death: on a hot morning under a house in Darwin, Ruben wakes to find his cousin Joe hanging from the rafters. What follows is the story of a family, buffeted by constant tragedy, holding itself together – as their people have done generation after generation. This play asks us: how do we deal with death? And how many other people does it take for each of us to live? Little by little, Ruben’s family brings him back from the edge.' (Production summary)

2015 shortlisted AWGIE Awards Stage Award
2015 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
2014 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Australian Work
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