Playwright Wesley Enoch AM will ship the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecturer at this 12 months’s Display screen Ceaselessly convention subsequent week on the Gold Coast.

A proud Quandamooka man and one in all Australia’s most celebrated Indigenous artists, Enoch’s work spans theatre, festivals, and display, championing First Nations voices and reshaping Australia’s cultural narrative by way of storytelling by way of influential roles, together with Creative Director of Sydney Competition and Professor of Indigenous Apply at QUT.

His physique of labor as a author and director contains stage productions similar to The 7 Levels of Grieving, Black Medea, The Sunshine Membership and The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Desk.

As a director, Wesley has helmed acclaimed theatrical productions together with The Sapphires, Black Diggers, I Am Eora, The Man from Mukinupin, Yibiyung, Parramatta Ladies, Black Cockatoo, A Raisin within the Solar, The Guests, and Applicable.

On this 12 months’s lecture, he’ll replicate on the facility of the display business to form nationwide id, cultural reminiscence, and public reality.

Wesley Enoch AM acknowledged, “Nowadays, our truthtellers have morphed into entertainers—journalists, politicians, and historians. We watch, however we don’t replicate. And when the true truth-tellers step again or are silenced, who’s left to talk for us? Perhaps it’s time for our entertainers to step up—not simply to carry out, however to hold tradition, to carry house for complexity, to talk with coronary heart and honesty. As a result of storytelling isn’t simply what we do—it’s how we keep in mind who we’re.”

“We’re honoured to have Wesley ship this 12 months’s Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture and know his phrases will problem and encourage us all,” mentioned Display screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner.

Display screen Ceaselessly takes place Tuesday, 6 Could – Thursday, 8 Could on the Gold Coast.