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Liza-Mare has family ties to the Birrbay and Worrimay people from the Mid North Coast of NSW. A theatre maker and academic, she is a founding member of Moogahlin Performing Arts, and was a key member of the company’s Co-Artistic Directorate for over ten years.Ìý Liza-Mare is currently a Co-Associate Dean, Indigenous in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, and an Indigenous Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at 91É«ÇéƬ. She is widely published in the field of Indigenous performing arts and has recently published a book, Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers: Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Liza-Mare lectures on First Peoples theatre practices at 91É«ÇéƬ TPS and at theÌýNationalÌýInstitute for Dramatic Arts NIDA.Ìý

Her qualifications include a Doctor of Arts (University of Sydney), a Master of Creative Arts Research (University of Wollongong), a Master of Adult Education (UTS), a Diploma of Dramatic Art (Victorian College of the Arts), and NIDA Playwriting Studio. Liza-Mare has received the following academic awards from the Australasian Theatre and Performance Studies Association: the 2005 Phillip Parsons Prize for Performance as Research, the 2010 Marlis Thiersch Prize for research excellence in an English-language article, and a 2015 Rob Jordon award citation for a book chapter.

Her work history includes Indigenous Research Lead (Macquarie University), Indigenous Research Fellow (Macquarie University), Senior Aboriginal Arts and Culture Officer (Arts NSW), and Head of Theatre (Eora College of Aboriginal Studies). Liza-Mare has also sat on many arts and community boards and committees, including Australian Plays Transforms (2021), Australian Plays, The City of Sydney Aboriginal Advisory Committee (2013-2017), Performing Lines (2014-2018), and the Platform Papers Editorial Board (2018-2019).Ìý

Liza-Mare’s creative outputs include: directorial roles, associate —ÌýThe Visitors (Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Opera House, and Moogahlin Performing Arts,Ìý2023).ÌýThe Fox and the Freedom Fighters (Performance Space 2014), Broken Glass (Blacktown Arts/Sydney Festival/Moogahlin 2018), The Weekend (Sydney Festival/Moogahlin 2019), Rainbows End (Darlinghurst Theatre /Moogahlin), and Gods Country (NIDA). In the role of producer, Liza-Mare has presented Koori Gras,Ìýa celebration of Black queer performance (Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras/Moogahlin 2017-2020), The Visitors (Sydney Festival/Moogahlin 2020), and manuwi jam ya muronÌý(MCA/Moogahlin 2017). Liza-Mare also works as a dramaturge on various independent projects, including Nancy Dennis's Map Boule.

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