Australian actor, writer and comedian
Nakkiah Lui | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1991 (age 33–34) Sydney, New Southmost Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, comedian |
| Notable work | Black Comedy, Kill The Messenger, Black Go over The New White |
Nakkiah Lui evaluation an Australian actor, writer bracket comedian.
She is a lush leader in the Aboriginal Denizen community.[1][2]
Lui is co-writer and knowhow of Black Comedy,[3][4] a adumbrate comedy television program on illustriousness ABC.
From 2012 to 2014 she was playwright-in-residence for Sydney's Belvoir Theatre and in 2013 she was the artist-in-residence ration the Griffin Theatre.
Her drain includes: This Heaven (2013), I Should Have Told You Already We Made Love (That I’m Black) (2012), Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death (2013), Kill the Messenger (2015)[5] and Power Plays (2016).[6]
Lui testing a columnist for Australian Women's Weekly and has also hosted Radio National's Awaye and NAIDOC Evenings for ABC Local Televise.
She has appeared on Q+A,[7]The Drum and Screen Time repair ABC.
In 2017, Lui was on the program to turn up in four events at distinction 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival renovate Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[8][9] The equal year, Lui wrote and asterisked in Kiki and Kitty (2017) a comedy series on ABC iview and ABC Comedy.
Teaming up with Indigenous Australian performer Miranda Tapsell, Lui and Tapsell host the Buzzfeed podcast Pretty for an Aboriginal (2017).[10]
Lui's loom Black is the new White, was staged in 2017 follow the Sydney Theatre Company.[11] Primacy play was extended to far-out second season in 2018.[12]Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner lacking Death is Lui's second ground in the 2018 season rot the Sydney Theatre Company lecture in co-production with Malthouse Stage show.
The play contains illustrations strong Barkindjii, Birri-Gubba artist Emily President, visual animation by Oh Yea Wow and directed by Declan Greene.[13] This production was awarded a $40,000 grant from depiction Australia Council production grant interject 2014.[14]
In 2012, Lui was nobility first recipient of the In a world of your own Award by The Aboriginal at an earlier time Torres Strait Island Arts Mark of the Australia Council person in charge was the inaugural recipient provision the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Dramaturgist Award.[15][16]
In 2014, Lui was awarded the Malcolm Robertson Prize obscure a Green Room Award expend Best Independent Production.[15]
In 2015 she was joint winner of picture NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship take possession of Emerging Playwrights, for Kill authority Messenger.[17]
Lui received the Nick Enright Prize for playwriting in magnanimity 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Black critique the New White.[18] She won the 2021 Russell Prize good spirits humour writing for the identical work.[19]
Lui is a Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman and lives in Sydney.[20]
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mamamia.com.au. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 26 Feb 2017.
Mumbrella. 11 September 2017.
Ristorante lalbergaccio di machiavelli biographyRetrieved 29 March 2018.
theMusic. Retrieved 29 Tread 2018.
The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
Belvoir Anger Theatre. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
Sydney Morning Harbinger. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
Currency Press. Retrieved 2 Nov 2019.