Ngaire Pigram

Ngaire Pigram (born ) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director She is a Yawuru woman. One of her earliest film roles was playing the lead in Beck Cole's Plains Empty, which screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2005, Her sister Naomi played the lead role, and won a WOW! Award for her performance.

In September 2020, Pigram was selected as one of eight participants in a new writing and directing initiative organised by WA Indigenous production companies Pink Pepper and Ramu Productions, along with and New Zealand company Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, called the RED project. The project consisted of development workshops enabling each participant to write and direct a 10-minute short film, which would be part of a single anthology 80-minute feature film (working title RED) consisting of stories from a female Aboriginal perspective. The other participants were Kodie Bedford, Debbie Carmody, Kelli Cross, Karla Hart, Chantelle Murray, Jub Clerc, and Mitch Torres. and in 2019 played Gail in a touring production of the musical directed by its writer, Tony Briggs.

She worked in theatre between 2015 and 2018, performing in Marrugeku's Cut The Sky. The play, which shone an Indigenous perspective on climate change, The play was based on an historic Aboriginal land rights protest, and featured poems by Edwin Lee Mulligan and songs by singer-songwriters Ngaiire and Nick Cave, which were sung by Pigram.

She played Aunty Theresa in a 2020 revival of the stage production of Bran Nue Dae.

Recognition and awards For her performance in the second series of Mystery Road she was nominated for the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. The entire cast also won Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in the Equity Ensemble Awards.

Personal life Pigram has two children, whom she raised as a single mother.

As writer / director Year Title Role Notes 2013 Dark Whispers Writer / director Short film 2020 RED Writer Anthology film

Stage Year Title Role Notes 2011 The Sapphires Kay Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney & Barbican Theatre, London 2015–2018 Cut the Sky Dungkabah (also songwriter) Regal Theatre, Perth, WA regional tour, Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brussels, Sydney Opera House, Arts House Meat Market, Melbourne, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Alexander Kasser Theater, New Jersey, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto with Marrugeku Company 2019 The Sapphires Gail 2020 Bran Nue Dae Aunty Theresa Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Regal Theatre, Perth