Board Member

Nadia Martich

Nadia Martich is a proud Gamilaroi and Bigambul woman hailing from north-western NSW who now calls beautiful Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar home.

Nadia is an artist working in visual art, theatre, dance, and puppetry and enjoys creating, devising, performing, and mentoring.

Nadia trained at NAISDA Dance College, graduating with the prestigious Chairman’s award of excellence in 2015. And has since been lucky to share her culture and perform in Scotland, Canada, and Hawaii as well as throughout regional WA and NSW, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane mainstages.

When asked to choose her favourite performance experiences Nadia shared, ‘Transformation’ Banff Arts Centre Canada, CO_EX_EN- Karul Projects, Panawathi Girl by Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, and Show Day by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.

Nadia also works as a student support officer for Yalari, a non for-profit organisation offering boarding school scholarships to Indigenous students from regional and rural Australia. In this role Nadia supports the Yalari boarding students in their secondary school journey at MLC Claremont.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre respectfully acknowledges the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners and custodians of the unceded land on which we work. As we tour our work across these vast lands, we pay our respect to all First Nations elders, past and present. We celebrate their continuing connection and contribution to culture, country and community, and thank all First Nations peoples for their wisdom in caring for the land, the sky, the rivers and the sea.

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