DR LIZA-MARE SYRON has kinship ties to the Birripay and Worrimay peoples of the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. She is a co-founder of Moogahlin Performing Arts and served on its artistic and company leadership team for 17 years. As an award-winning academic with an extensive publication record in Indigenous performing arts, Liza-Mare currently holds the position of Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media and the Co-Associate Dean Indigenous in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales. Her work history includes serving as Head of Theatre at the Eora Centre in Redfern and as Senior Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Officer at Arts NSW.

Liza-Mare also works as a dramaturge and lectures on First Peoples theatre practices at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts NIDA.