Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui is an Australian writer and actor and is a young leader in the Australian Aboriginal community. 2Career Lui is co-writer and star of Black Comedy, a sketch comedy television program on the ABC. From 2012 to 2014 she was playwright-in-residence for Sydney's Belvoir Theatre and in 2013 she was the artist-in-residence for the Griffin Theatre. Her work includes: This Heaven (2013), I Should Have Told You Before We Made Love (That I’m Black) (2012), Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owners of Death (2013), Kill the Messenger (2015) and Power Plays (2016).Lui is a columnist for Australian Women's Weekly and has also hosted Radio National’s Awaye and NAIDOC Evenings for ABC Local Radio. She has appeared on Q&A, The Drum and Screen Time on ABC. In 2017, Lui was on the program to appear in four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The same year, Lui wrote and starred in Kiki and Kitty (2017) a comedy series on ABC iview and ABC Comedy. Teaming up with Indigenous Australian actress Miranda Tapsell, Lui and Tapsell host the Buzzfeed podcast Pretty for an Aboriginal (2017).Lui’s play Black is the new White, was staged in 2017 at the Sydney Theatre Company. The play was extended to a second season in 2018. Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owners of Death is Lui's second play in the 2018 season at the Sydney Theatre Company and in co-production with Malthouse Theatre. The play contains illustrations by Barkindjii, Birri-Gubba artist Emily Johnson, visual animation by Oh Yeah Wow and directed by Declan Greene. This production was awarded a $40,000 grant from the Australia Council production grant in 201