Emele Ugavule

Emele Ugavule

Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan (Te Kaiga o Fagatiale, Nukunonu, Te Kaiga o Koloi, Uea) Fijian (Kaideuba) multi-disciplinary storyteller working across live performance & film as a performer, writer, director, & creative producer. She is the Creative Director of Talanoa. Her work is intercultural centring the development of ethical trans-indigenous collaborative creative processes & outcomes informed by Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies & cosmologies. Emele has produced content for Sydney Opera House, Audrey Journal, Talanoa & Black Birds, directed work for Casula Powerhouse, Festival Fatale & Wantok and performance coached for Warner Music. She has been featured on ABC Arts & Huffington Post, invited to speak at AI For Good (United Nations Summit on Artificial Intelligence), Accent on Women, Don’t @ Me, Writing NSW and written for SBS Life & The Quo. Emele has facilitated intercultural theatre-making workshops for Arts Centre Melbourne, the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies and Vou Dance. Emele has worked with musicians such as Solange Knowles, Ngaiire, Thelma Plum, Wallace & Ric Rubio.