Meyne Wyatt is known for The Nightingale (2018), Redfern Now (2012) and Mystery Road (2018).

Meyne Wyatt is an award winning Wongutha-Yamatji writer, director and performer.

He recently wrote his first one-hour episode of television for Netflix’s HEARTBREAK HIGH with Fremantle Media which will air in 2022. Meyne is currently working in many writing teams for television, from drama to comedy including writing an episode on S3 of the ABC’s award winning political drama TOTAL CONTROL for Blackfella Films. Meyne is developing his smash hit debut play CITY OF GOLD for television with Bunya Productions. He is under commission to write a new play for Sydney Theatre Company. Meyne’s first short film, which he wrote and will direct, is produced by Bunya Productions and supported by Screen Australia.

The actor, playwright and painter may be a polymath – but there’s one role he won’t be taking: politics. ‘You have to kiss arse. Yeah, it’s not my bag’

City of Gold is on now at Sydney Theatre Company
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At Meyne Wyatt’s father’s wake, Ken and Ben Wyatt were talking politics.

Ken Wyatt, Meyne’s uncle, was until recently the Liberal minister for Indigenous Australians; Ben Wyatt, Meyne’s cousin, who at the time was treasurer for WA’s Labor government.

“They were having a little political debate,” Wyatt, 32, says. “I said to dad’s friends: ‘Look over there at Uncle Ken, and Ben, talking about Liberal and Labor – and pretending to be different!’
He laughs, then adds: “To me, same shit, different face.”

Meyne Wyatt is a Wongutha-Yamatji actor and writer. He says: ‘My self-portrait is the first painting I’ve done in over ten years and I decided to enter it at the behest of my artist mother, Sue Wyatt, an Archibald Prize finalist in 2003 for her portrait of writer Doris Pilkington.

Kalgoorlie born actor Meyne Wyatt was just 18 when he was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art and has created a buzz in the industry with non-stop theatre productions, TV and film work since graduating NIDA class of 2010.