Kylie Bracknell, formerly Kylie Farmer and also known as Kaarljilba Kaardn, is an

Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...

writer, director and actress.

Career

Farmer played Juliet in a run of ''

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'' with the Australian Shakespeare Company, featured in the 2010 revival of '' The Sapphires'', appeared in Rima Tamou's film ''Sa Black Thing'' (an episode of the

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series ''Dramatically Black'') performed in the theatre production ''

Aliwa! ''Aliwa!'' is a play by Indigenous Australian playwright Dallas Winmar, and published by Currency Press in 2002. Plot Based on a true story of a mother who tries to keep her three daughters from being taken away by officials after the death o ...

'', appeared in '' Muttacar Sorry Business'' and is the face and narrator of the

NITV National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week ''NITV News Updat ...

series ''Waabiny Time''. As Kylie Bracknell, she acted in Nakkiah Lui's ''Black is the New White,'' appeared the feature film ''I Met a Girl'', plays Ally in the animated TV show ''Little J & Big Cuz'', and plays Piper in the TV series ''Irreverent''.

Noongar language Noongar (), also Nyungar (), is an Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum, spoken by some members of the Noongar community and others. It is taught actively in Australia, including at schools, uni ...

and culture has featured strongly in her career. She spent 11 years working at Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, an Aboriginal-led theatre company based in Perth, in the heart of Noongar country. In 2012, she translated a selection of

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into Noongar and performed them at the

Globe Theatre The Globe Theatre was a Theater (structure), theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was ...

in London with fellow Noongar actors Kyle Morrison and Trevor Ryan. In 2020, Bracknell co-translated and directed a critically acclaimed Noongar adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', titled ''Hecate'', the first full-length adaptation of a Shakespearean play performed in one Indigenous language of Australia. She followed this up in 2021 by co-translating, co-producing, and directing a Noongar language dub of the 1972 Bruce Lee film ''Fist of Fury'', retitled ''Fist of Fury Noongar Daa.'' Bracknell has also co-translated and directed Noongar episodes of ''Little J & Big Cuz''. Bracknell was awarded the 2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.

Language advocacy

Bracknell is a strong advocate for Aboriginal languages, with appearances at TEDxManly and on the ABC program '' Q&A''. In addition, she has taught Noongar language to young people in country towns through Community Arts Network's ''Noongar Pop Culture'' project, around Australia via the early years television series ''Waabiny Time,'' and in series of online language learning videos.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Kylie Farmer at TEDxManly 2014
* * Living people 21st-century Australian actresses Australian film actresses Australian musical theatre actresses Australian television actresses Indigenous Australian actresses Noongar people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-actor-stub