Nakkiah Lui
Nakkiah Lui is an Australian playwright and actor. In 2012 Lui was awarded the Dreaming Award by The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Lui is cowriter 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 previous 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), and Kill the Messenger (2015).
As an actor and television broadcaster, Lui has hosted Radio National’s Awaye and NAIDOC Evenings for ABC Local Radio, and has appeared on Q&A and The Drum on ABC.
Background
Lui is a Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander, and is a young leader in the Australian Aboriginal community
References
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-26/nakkiah-lui-on-the-art-of-black-comedy/7360548
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/nakkiah-lui-20160920-grkakr.html