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Australia’s longest running First Peoples theatre company, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company proudly announces the appointment of acclaimed Yorta Yorta and Gunaikurnai playwright and director Andrea James as its new Artistic Director and co-CEO, following the remarkable 18-year tenure of Dr Rachael Maza AM. Andrea’s appointment is the result of a rigorous national search led by ILBIJERRI’s […]

Koori Way and ILBIJERRI are teaming up to develop and tour a new social impact work addressing the prevalence of smoking within First Peoples communities. This program is supported by the nationally funded initiative, Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS), which promotes preventing or quitting smoking and vaping to improve the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]

We’re pleased to share an advance copy of the First Nations Performing Arts Workforce Development Framework 2025–2030, ahead of its public launch later this week. Led by the collective of federally-funded First Nations Performing Arts Companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Mooghalin, Yirrayarkin, NAISDA Dance College and Marrugeku, this Framework outlines a 10-year First Nations-led strategy to […]

Palawa playwright Nathan Maynard’s, THE LINE, co-directed by Dr Rachael Maza AM, is a darkly-humorous theatrical retelling of the Frontier Wars (1804-30) in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Combining puppetry, live film, movement and text, the work captures the legacy of the Black Line, a brutal colonial campaign that continues to shape Palawa identity and survival. Created in association […]

BlackStage and Ensemble working together Two of our development programs came together for a week of learning and creative development in early 2025. ILBIJERRI Ensemble and Blackstage joined forces to share an intimate showing with the community, led by Amy Sole and Miela Anich. Over three days they created a 20 min piece including design […]

Are you an aspiring theatre-maker who wants to learn new skills with ILBIJERRI mentors? ENSEMBLE Open Access 2025 Call Out We’re looking for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people aged 18–35 to participate in the ILBIJERRI Ensemble Open Access 2025 Program. Across a 6-month term of workshops, intensives and collaborations you’ll learn performance and theatre-making […]

ILBIJERRI THEATRE COMPANY IS LOOKING FOR A SENIOR PRODUCER Do you have experience with project management particularly in contracting, scheduling, logistics, relationship building and budgeting? Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with heaps to offer a creative First Peoples-led organisation? Alternatively, are you someone committed to practicing active allyship and eager to […]

After 18 years as the driving force behind ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Rachael Maza, a proud Yidinji, Meriam and Dutch woman, has announced that she will step down from her role as Artistic Director and Co-CEO at the end of 2025. Rachael joined ILBIJERRI as Artistic Director in 2008, bringing with her a wealth of experience […]

“I heard a story once of a woman who turned into an Emu and ran into the sun…” Emu in the Sun is a dance, a song, a story that is written in the sky. Etta is spiraling. Gripped by melancholy. She is glued to her bed, she hasn’t moved for days. Her bleakness is […]

He’s Black!!!  In a small community hall in the town of Brewarrina the death of a beloved community radio presenter and patriarch - Deadly Dave - has his family in the depths of grief. His son can’t face the loss of his hero, his daught’ is desperate to keep everything together and his wife doesn’t […]