Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui
Occupation	Writer, Actor
Notable work	Black Comedy, Kill The Messenger, Black Is The New White

Nakkiah Lui is an Australian writer and actor and is a young leader in the Australian Aboriginal community. She is a Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman.

Lui is co-writer and star of Black Comedy, a television program on the ABC, and a columnist for Australian Women's Weekly.

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 Ownersof Death (2013), Kill the Messenger (2015) and Power Plays (2016).

Lui has also hosted Radio National’s Awaye and NAIDOC Evenings for ABC Local Radio, and has appeared on Q&A and The Drum on ABC.

In 2012 Lui was awarded the Dreaming Award by The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council.

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