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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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1 1 form y separately published work icon While the Men Are Away Alexandra Burke , Kim Wilson , Monica Zanetti , Kim Wilson , Monica Zanetti , Jada Alberts , Magda Wozniak , Sam Icklow , Enoch Mailangi , 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.

1 Jarradah Gooragulli : Dance of the Brolgas Kathy Mills , 2022 single work drama

'Jarradah Gooragulli - Dance of the Brolgas is a story Aunty Kathy first wrote 40 years ago, and has been hoping to tell ever since. This First Nations-led performance celebrates the strength of culture and spirit of survival that exists in all of us. Blending storytelling, dance, music, language, cinematography, and song to tell a creation story alongside the story of two lovers.'

Source: Brown's Mart.

1 y separately published work icon Little Sister Jada Alberts , 2020 Australia : PlayWriting Australia , 2020 19658846 2020 single work drama
1 3 Elektra / Orestes Jada Alberts , Anne-Louise Sarks , 2015 single work drama

'The story of the House of Atreus is one of the greatest cycles ever conceived by humankind – a diabolical sequence of brilliant dramatic premises. At its heart is an unstoppable chain reaction as each generation, one after the other, tries to solve the problems their parents made worse by trying to solve the problems their parents made worse…

'It is hard to say when it all began. For Clytemnestra the cause was this: her husband Agamemnon’s sacrifice of their daughter at the outset of a great war a decade ago. For Elektra and Orestes the cause was this: Clytemnestra’s vengeful slaughter of their father Agamemnon at the victorious close of this same great war. Now Orestes is in exile and Elektra, Hamlet-like, stalks her mother’s palace looking for a way to achieve some semblance of justice.

'Anne-Louise Sarks (Nora, Medea) has forged a remarkable series of shows by combining the full force of old tales with the uncanny familiarity of modern life. Here she teams with playwright Jada Alberts (Brothers Wreck) to create twin shows in a single night. One whole turn of the bloody cycle of love, justice and revenge.

'Hunter Page-Lochard (Brothers Wreck) is the perfect contemporary Orestes, supported by a cast that will truly resemble the world we live in.

'This brilliant epic is proof that everything old is new again.' (Production summary)

1 9 y separately published work icon Brothers Wreck Jada Alberts , 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)

1 1 Weight Jada Alberts , 2013 single work drama 'In Weight, Ruben is a cheeky run-a-muck 22yr old boy, running recklessly across Darwin's suburbs following the tragic suicide of his best mate. Will Ruben let the heartache break him like it did his best friend, or does he have the strength to become more then he is and beat this weight that has become so heavy?'
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