Witness First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee says Nakkiah Lui’s Blackie Blackie Brown is exactly the …
Carissa Lee
Carissa Lee
Carissa Lee is the Inaugural Witness First Nations Emerging Critic. She is an associate editor and manages the Witness Instagram account. Born on Wemba-Wemba country, she graduated with Honours from the drama course at Flinders University Drama Centre and currently works as a professional actor on stage and screen. She completed a traineeship through the Black and Write! Program at QUT, which led to her role as the ATSI Writers Program Coordinator at the SA Writers Centre. Carissa has written for publications such as Junkee, LIP Mag, Book Riot, and Melbourne Writers Festival, and is presently completing her PhD in Indigenous Theatre.
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When we go to the theatre, what do we expect? Do we have a responsibility? …
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Carissa Lee (no relation) reviews Michele Lee’s wickedly funny Going Down at Malthouse Theatre.
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Carissa Lee reflects on Bell Shakespeare’s recent intimate production of Antony and Cleopatra
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Carissa Lee reviews UK artist Selina Thompson’s salt, a story of colonisation, racism and hope
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Carissa Lee breathes in the empathy that powers Black Birds’ Exhale at Arts House for …
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Carissa Lee discovers how some of Australia’s most innovative and internationally recognised theatre companies are …
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Do women ever get to be equal, when the male gaze forever keeps them on …
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Want to write outside your own culture? Carissa Lee explores why research is so important, …
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Carissa Lee reviews the Keir Choreographic Award: The Wetness and Memoir for Rivers and the …