Meyne wyatt biography

MEYNE WYATT, AUTHOR: Hi everyone, my name is Meyne. This is my book, it’s called Maku. I wrote it and did the illustrations for it.

So how youse doing today, good?

CHILDREN: Yes.

MEYNE WYATT: Alright should I read this book for youse?

CHILDREN: Yes!

MEYNE WYATT: It’s about a young boy who has been in care for some time and he’s come to a new school and he’s finding it hard to fit in and so he gets questioned by his teacher when he’s meeting everyone in his class and she asks him, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and he says he wants to make movies when he grows up.

MEYNE WYATT (Reading from book): Maku loves super hero movies, so why doesn't he make one of them?

RHIANNON SHINE, REPORTER: Maku is the first in a new children’s book series called Our Stories.

The books explore the joys and challenges of navigating different cultures in the school playground.

MEYNE WYATT (Reading from book): M-a-k-u spells Maku proudly. It means witchetty grub.

The boys laughs. ‘So you're a dirty grub’, he says.

MEYNE WYATT: The first time that you are ever going to get those discussions and talks about stamping out racism and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous - it starts at school.

I was kind of the kid that always wanted to make movies, and you know, I eventually did do that. I knew quite young that I wanted to be a storyteller and make films and TV and plays and theatre.

So I don’t think it is not too much of a stretch, you can really tell there is a lot of me in this story.

RHIANNON SHINE: From page to stage - Meyne Wyatt recently performed his critically acclaimed play, City of Gold, in front of a home crowd in WA for the first time.

The semi-autobiographical story is about growing up in Kalgoorlie, racism and the death of his father.

MEYNE WYATT: At the time that I started writing City of Gold, my father had passed, so I was grieving.

Australian actor (born 1989)

Meyne Wyatt (born 1989) is an Aboriginal Australian actor, known for his stage, film, and television roles.

In 2012, he played a supporting role in the musical comedy film The Sapphires and also made his debut with the Bell Shakespeare company. His appearance in the second season of Redfern Now earned him nominations at the 2014 Logie Awards and at the 3rd AACTA Awards. From 2014 to 2016, Wyatt played the ongoing role of Nate Kinski in Neighbours.

Early life

Meyne Wyatt was born in Kalgoorlie in 1989, to Sue, a painter and children's book illustrator, and Brian, who worked for the National Native Title Council. His father was a Yamatji man, while his mother is from the Wongatha group, and Wyatt is the youngest of four siblings. He attended Hale School in Perth from the age of 13.

After leaving Hale, Wyatt completed a theatre course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He auditioned for full-time places at WAAPA and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and was accepted into both. He decided to attend NIDA and graduated in 2010.

Performing arts career

Following his graduation from NIDA, Wyatt appeared in several theatre productions in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. He won the Best Newcomer accolade at the 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards for his performance as an Aboriginal teenager in Lachlan Philpott's production of Silent Disco. In 2012, Wyatt was cast in the supporting role of Jimmy Middleton in the musical comedy film The Sapphires.Wyatt also made his debut with the Bell Shakespeare company, in a production of The School for Wives.

In early 2013, Wyatt starred in the lead role of Ralph Meyers's production of Peter Pan at the New Victory Theater. In that same year, Wyatt filmed a supporting role in The Bro