Acting
Violette Ayad
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Acting
Credits
4 titles
Violette Ayad was born on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja to Palestinian and Lebanese parents. She is now based on Gadigal land where she works as an actor, writer, director, and voice artist. She is a 2017 NIDA graduate with a Batchelor of Fine Arts in Acting. Her theatre credits include Scenes from a Climate Era (Belvoir), Oil (Sydney Theatre Co), Son of Byblos (25a Belvoir), Oil (Black Swan Theatre Co), Nearer the Gods (Ensemble Theatre), Elektra/Orestes (Hive Collective) Where the Streets had a Name (Monkey Baa) and The Players national tour (Bell Shakespeare). Other professional work includes Mercury Poisoning (KXT Broadway), Coram Boy (KXT), Revolt She Said. Revolt. Again, as well as new Aust…
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NRA unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary women of the past on the screen with present day filmmakers. Contemporary women talk to characters from 100 years ago, reanimate their antics and emulate their mayhem moves. As early 21st century performers step into the clothes of their early 20th century counterparts, battling their haywire machines, exploding gags, and eruptive bodies, they learn to wield humour as a weapon against the structures that contain them today.
Breaking Plates
2024
NRSalifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.
Seeds of Gold
2023
NRDuring a tense supervised visit at a child contact centre, Orla reconnects with her estranged father and offers him a glimpse of redemption.
Princess
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3.6A gay disabled teenage boy changes into the body of a beautiful woman, so that he can be loved.
Pulse
2017
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRA unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary women of the past on the screen with present day filmmakers. Contemporary women talk to characters from 100 years ago, reanimate their antics and emulate their mayhem moves. As early 21st century performers step into the clothes of their early 20th century counterparts, battling their haywire machines, exploding gags, and eruptive bodies, they learn to wield humour as a weapon against the structures that contain them today.
Breaking Plates
2024
NRSalifa and her mother, Marta, have left behind the chaos of the Lebanese civil war in 1977 to start anew in rural NSW, Australia. They struggle on a farm, until rumours start swirling about the discovery of gold on the farm.
Seeds of Gold
2023