Jamila Main
Jamila Main in ‘cycles’ (2020). Photo by Piri Eddy. Headshot of Jamila Main by Sam Oster
Jamila Main
Jamila Main is a trained actor and self-taught, award-winning playwright living and working on unceded Peramangk and Kaurna land in SA. A graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts Acting program (2018), Jamila works across stage and screen, most recently presenting a showing of their autobiographical, durational theatre work How Long Can This Last? at Vitalstatistix with dramaturg Emma Valente which had an online, global audience of over 600 people. Jamila’s final role pre-Covid was telling Leen’s story in Mohammed Al Attar’s acclaimed Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence in the Adelaide Festival. During Lockdown Jamila performed a livestreamed reading of their latest play How to Eat Rabbit alongside actor Audrey Mason-Hyde.
Jamila is currently working on various screen projects yet to be announced, writing new plays, and is an advisor on the National Advisory Panel (Playwriting Australia and Australian Plays), a Carclew Fellow, Co-Chair of the Equity Diversity Committee, Youth Advisor at ATYP, and a participant in the Midsumma Pathways Program for queer and disabled artists.