Kylie Bracknell

Kylie Bracknell (formerly Kylie Farmer) is an accomplished Noongar actor, writer, director and producer from the southwest of Western Australia. As an actor, Kylie has featured in television programs such as Little J and Big Cuz (NITV and ABC), The Gods of Wheat Street (ABC) and Redfern Now (ABC), films including I Met a Girl (2020), Ace of Spades (2012) and Stone Bros (2009), and theatre productions including Black is the New White (STC 2017-19) and The Sapphires (Belvoir 2010). Kylie is a face of Aboriginal language survival as host of the early childhood television program Waabiny Time (NITV). She has developed and directed groundbreaking works completely in Noongar language, including the re-imagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth titled Hecate (2020), a performance of Shakespearean sonnets at Shakespeare's Globe in London (2012), two episodes of Little J & Big Cuz (2019), and most recently Fist of Fury Noongar Daa (2020-21), the first feature film to be dubbed in an Australian language. She is a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.