Liza-Mare Syron

Liza-Mare Syron is a director, actor, teacher, dramaturge and award winning academic. With family ties to the birripay and worrimay people of the mid-north coast NSW. She is currently a Scientia Associate Professor and Co-Associate Dean Indigenous (ADA) at UNSW. She is a founding member of Moogahlin Performing Arts and was a Co-Artistic Director and Senior Artistic Associate or the company.

Liza-Mare is widely published in the areas of actor training; Indigenous theatre practice; inter-cultural performance; and theatre and community development. Her recent book, Rehearsal Pracrices of INidgenous Women Playwrights was published in 2021. Liza-Mare has received the following academic awards; the Marlis Thiersch Prize for excellence in English-language articles in the broad field of drama, theatre and performance studies the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies ADSA (2010), the Phillip Parsons Prize, for Performance as Research ADSA (2005), and a Rob Jordon award citation ADSA (2013) for her contributing chapter, ‘Afterword: Contemporary Indigenous theatre and performance practice in Australia: cultural integrity and historical significance’ in Maryrose Casey's Telling Stories: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performance 2012. Liza-Mare also lectures at NIDA and at UNSW.

Her professional directing roles include Associate Director, The Visitors (Jane Harrison) with STC at the Sydney Opera House, The Weekend (Henrietta Baird), which premiered at the Sydney Festival 2019. Other directorial credits include Rainbows End (Jane Harrison) at Darlinghurst theatre, The Fox and The Freedom Fighters (Rhonda Dixon Grovenor and Naedena Dixon with Alana Valentine) Carriageworks Redfern 2015, assist on Wynanboga Yuringa Carriageworks 2017, and workshop director Yellamundie national first people's playwriting festival 2015, 2017. Liza-Mare also lectures at NIDA and has worked as a dramaturge on NIDA student productions.