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Emele Ugavule: Director

Emele is a Tokelauan Fijian (Kaideuba, Te Kaiga o Fagatiale, Nukunonu, Te Kaiga o Koloi, Uvea) multi-disciplinary storyteller. Her work is intercultural centring the development of ethical trans-indigenous collaborative creative processes & outcomes informed by Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies & cosmologies.
 
Emele has worked with the Art Gallery of NSW, Next Wave, Mangere Arts Centre – Nga tohu o Uenku,  Q Theatre, Arts House, Black Birds, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Griffin Theatre Co, Belvoir St, Darlinghurst Theatre Co. + Festival Fatale, Fairfield City Gallery & Museum, Sydney Theatre Company, Warner Music, Sydney Opera House, Casula Powerhouse, Solange Knowles & The Chinati Foundation, ABC + Playmaker Media. 
 
Emele is an Ambassador for the 2019 Human Rights & Arts Film Festival, and is a board member for PACT – Centre for Emerging Arts. She is also recipient of the 2018/19 Creative Development Fellowship (Theatre) from Create NSW, enabling her to research and document Pacific theatrical practice in Australia, Fiji & Aotearoa including as a resident artist of Vou Dance Co & Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at the University of South Pacific.

A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Emele has facilitated intercultural theatremaking workshops at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University), Arts Centre Melbourne + Melbourne Fringe Festival, Oceania Centre, La Boite Theatre Company & guest lectured at NIDA. 

Emele’s recent work, Kalaga Atu premiered in 2022 at the Art Gallery of NSW.

She is the Creative Director of  Talanoa.

Credits include:

KALAGA ATU: Director, writer and performer, AGNSW 2022
TE MOLIMAU – Director. Downstairs Belvoir 25A 2019
BROWN SKIN GIRL – Producer. Old Fitz Theatre. 2019 season
MEET THE DANCERS – Director. Dance Rites. Sydney Opera House, 2018
MALAPO TO MILLER reading – Director. Oceania Rising, Casual Powerhouse 2018
NANA & BERTAH reading – Director.  Festival Fatale @ Eternity Playhouse. 2018
BROWN SKIN GIRL – Producer.  Batch Festival, Griffin Theatre Company 2018
COUNTER FACE – Writer, Co-Director, Producer 2018
EXHALE – Director. Next Wave & Arts House 2018
TABU: FIJIAN KALI & HAIR RITUAL – Director. Mangere Arts Centre NZ 2018
PEHE – Director. Transoceanic Visual Exchange / Footscray Arts Centre 2018
BLACK BIRDS – Writer, Director. The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre 2017

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