Carissa Lee

Alex Vaughan

Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country. Carissa has performed with Melbourne Theatre Company, the Malthouse Theatre, La Mama, and State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Some of her favourite roles were in productions Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, Andrew Bovell’s Holy Day, and portraying Charles Manson in Robert Reid’s The Bacchae. Carissa has also appeared in House Husbands, The Sammy J Show, and political campaigns such as Treaty Victoria’s Deadly Questions and VACCA’s It’s What you Don’t See series.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.