Kylie Farmer

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Kylie Bracknell, formerly Kylie Farmer and also known as Kaarljilba Kaardn, [1] is an Aboriginal Australian writer, director and actress.

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Career

Farmer played Juliet in a run of Romeo and Juliet with the Australian Shakespeare Company, [2] [3] featured in the 2010 revival of The Sapphires , [4] [5] appeared in Rima Tamou's film Sa Black Thing (an episode of the SBS TV series Dramatically Black) performed in the theatre production Aliwa! , [6] [7] appeared in Muttacar Sorry Business [8] and is the face and narrator of the NITV series Waabiny Time. [9]

As Kylie Bracknell, she acted in Nakkiah Lui's Black is the New White, [10] appeared the feature film I Met a Girl, [11] plays Ally in the animated TV show Little J & Big Cuz, [12] and plays Piper in the TV series Irreverent. [13]

Noongar language and culture has featured strongly in her career. She spent 11 years working at Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, an Aboriginal-led theatre company based in Perth, in the heart of Noongar country. [14]

In 2012, she translated a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets into Noongar and performed them at the Globe Theatre in London with fellow Noongar actors Kyle Morrison and Trevor Ryan. [15]

In 2020, Bracknell co-translated and directed a critically acclaimed Noongar adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, titled Hecate, the first full-length adaptation of a Shakespearean play performed in one Indigenous language of Australia. [16] She followed this up in 2021 by co-translating, co-producing, and directing a Noongar language dub of the 1972 Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury, retitled Fist of Fury Noongar Daa. [17] Bracknell has also co-translated and directed Noongar episodes of Little J & Big Cuz. [18]

Bracknell was awarded the 2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. [19]

Language advocacy

Bracknell is a strong advocate for Aboriginal languages, with appearances at TEDxManly [20] and on the ABC program Q&A . [21] [22]

In addition, she has taught Noongar language to young people in country towns through Community Arts Network's Noongar Pop Culture project, [23] around Australia via the early years television series Waabiny Time, [24] [25] and in series of online language learning videos. [26]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Stone Bros. DonnaShort film
2012BrolgaShort film
2012Ace of SpadesAnnieShort film
2016Friendship Love & LoyaltyDenise
2020I Met a GirlAmiya

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005Dramatically BlackCrystalEpisode: "Sa Black Thing"
2011Waabiny Time21 episodes
2013 Redfern Now LenaEpisode: "Pokies"
2014 The Gods of Wheat Street Jamie Lavelle2 episodes
2017Little J & Big CuzAlly5 episodes
2022 Irreverent Piper10 episodes

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