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Dr Liz Jones, AO

DR LIZ JONES, AO has worked as a performance artist at La Mama with the ensemble led by Lloyd Jones continuously since 1973. She has also worked extensively with a number of directors and ensembles including Ariette Taylor, Suzanne Chaundy, Humphrey Bower, Mammad Aidani, David Pledger and NYID, Margaret Cameron and Aphids, Emma Valente and The Rabble, Samara Hersch and Bagryana Popov. In 2009 she commenced working on The Minutes of Evidence Project (Coranderrk) with writers Giordano Nani and Andrea James, and director Rachel Maza and Ilbijerri Indigenous Theatre Company as a performer. This toured until 2015. She commenced work in Albury (Hothouse Residency) with Alicia Talbot on her youth project Night Vision which culminated in a Bundanon Residency involving local Koori/Shoalhaven youth as part of the Siteworks Festival 2016. Since 2014 she has worked with Bagryana Popov in the ‘Uncle Vanya-in- Residence Project’  in regional Victoria which in 2018 included a residency and performance at Bundanon and participation in the 2019 Adelaide Festival. She performed in Sex and Death directed by Samara Hersch in the Festival of Live Art (2019) Darwin Festival (2020) and Adelaide Festival(2022) In 1995 Liz was awarded the 1994 Kenneth Myer Medallion for the Performing Arts. In 2000 she was awarded the Sidney  Myer “Facilitator’s” Award and in 2001 Liz  received the Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002 she was placed on The Victorian Women’s Honour Roll and in 2008 received the Dorothy Crawford AWGIE for her contribution to playwriting. She received the 2018 Australia Council Award for Theatre and in 2019 was  presented with The Sue Natrass Award by Live Performance Australia. On March 31st 2023 Liz stood down as Artistic Director and CEO of La Mama.

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