Andrea James Andrea James i(A76430 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota ; Aboriginal Kurnai ; Polish
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BiographyHistory

Andrea James is a Yorta Yorta/Kurnai woman from north east Victoria and a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Animateuring). She has worked as the Aboriginal Arts Development Officer at the Blacktown Arts Centre, a freelance theatremaker, and the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Workers Theatre.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 winner Mona Brand Award
2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Theatre Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups     $48,147 
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Theatre Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $50,000.00

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Dogged 2021 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2021 20801111 2021 single work drama

'In alpine Victoria, on Gunaikurnai country, a flock of sheep are found with their throats torn open. A woman, a farmer’s daughter, is on the hunt—looking for feral dogs. Rifle at her side, she camps down, thinking she’s alone.

'But she’s not.

'From deep between the eucalypts, a dingo watches her. Heart beating through skin. Bristling with hunger and grief. Waiting for the slightest show of weakness. From Picnic at Hanging Rock to Wake in Fright, the greatest works of Australian Gothic tease a uniquely antipodean horror from the anxiety of living on stolen country.

'In a work of startling poetry, tenderness, and violence, Andrea James (Sunshine Super Girl) and AWGIE-winner Catherine Ryan ratchet this anxiety to epic proportions, in a bloody confrontation between two elemental forces, played out on contested territory.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

2022 nominated AWGIE Awards Stage Award Original
2021 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Australian Work
2021 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards Best Costume Design of a Mainstage Production
2022 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Drama
y separately published work icon Sunshine Super Girl 2020 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2021 17259202 2020 single work drama

'A young girl hits a ball against the tin wall of her family’s home with a frying pan. This is where it all began for Evonne Goolagong. Hers is a quintessentially Australian story about a girl from the bush who dared to dream, and with the unlikely support of an outback farming town, rose to become the No. 1 tennis player in the world, and a household name by the age of 19.

'Evonne Goolagong’s heartwarming story is a celebration of spirit and passion over adversity, and a tribute to a woman whose sporting prowess continues to inspire a nation, giving hope to thousands of young girls across the country. With its distinctively Australian sensibility and humour, Sunshine Super Girl asks us to consider our nation’s future and the part we can play for the next ‘Goolagong’ waiting in the wings.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards New Writing for the Australian Stage
2021 nominated AWGIE Awards Stage Award
2020 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Drama
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