Meyne Wyatt

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The Moogai 

Meyne Wyatt is an award winning Wongutha-Yamatji actor, writer, and director who graduated from The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2010. Meyne’s credits include ABC’s adaptation of Peter Temple’s award-winning novel THE BROKEN SHORE and the ABC series REDFERN NOW for which he was nominated both for Most Outstanding Newcomer at the 2014 Logie Awards and Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama at the AACTA Awards of the same year.

Meyne made history as the first Indigenous actor to join the main cast of Australia’s longest-running drama series NEIGHBOURS. Credits also include the HBO supernatural mystery drama series THE LEFTOVERS and Foxtel’s WENTWORTH, MYSTERY ROAD, LES NORTON, PREPPERS, the comedy series BLACK COMEDY and in series two of TROPPO. He will be seen opposite Asher Keddie in STRIFE, the forthcoming series for BINGE/Foxtel. 

Meyne’s film roles include THE MOOGAI, the Australian anthology film WE ARE STILL HERE which screened in competition at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, STRANGERLAND, opposite Nicole Kidman, and Hugo Weaving which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, the film adaptation of Tim Winton’s THE TURNING, and the musical comedy THE SAPPHIRES alongside Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, and Miranda Tapsell. 

Meyne wrote and starred in his debut play, CITY OF GOLD which was a co-production between Queensland Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company. The play had its World Premiere in 2019 in Meanjin and then on Gadigal Land and received rave reviews. 

Meyne’s first short film, which he wrote and will direct, is produced by Bunya Productions, and supported by Screen Australia. In 2020 Meyne was awarded the Packing Room Prize in the Archibald Prize, the most prestigious award for visual art in Australia, for his self-portrait. In 2021 he was featured on Time Magazine’s prestigious TIME100 Next List. Meyne published his first children’s book MAKU with Pan Macmillan last year.