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Jub Clerc
Jub Clerc, also known as Suzanne Jub Clerc, is a Indigenous Australian actor, playwright, film director, and screenwriter. She has worked in film and television since the early 2000s and has also worked in theatre. She is best known for her 2022 debut feature Sweet As.
Suzanne Jub Clerc is a Nyulnyul and Yawuru woman. Her mother was actress Sylvia Clarke. Clarke grew up around Beagle Bay, Broome, in the Kimberley region in Western Australia, while Clerc grew up around Port Hedland, in the Pilbara. So although her ancestors were from the Nyul Nyul/Yawuru peoples of the Kimberleys, her family married into the Pilbara families four or five generations ago.
At the age of 14, Clerc was encouraged by her teachers to go on a photography trip for teenagers around the Pilbara. She did not realise it at the time, but the group were considered at-risk adolescents, after her grades had dropped due to an absent mother and somewhat troubled home life. She later said that this trip changed her life, enabling her to see other possibilities outside her home town, a mining town. Straight after this trip, she was flown to Broome, where her mother was rehearsing for the stage musical production of Bran Nue Dae, and stayed at the upmarket Cable Beach Club. Clerc sang backstage and toured with her mother for four years.
When she was 18 she was accepted into the Aboriginal Theatre Training program that emerged from Bran Nue Dae. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1997, after undertaking a three-year course in acting.
Clerc has said that she likes to write comedy, or dramedy, even about serious themes. She started writing because she wanted to write roles that represented people like her, as there were not many roles for Indigenous people that were written or directed by Indigenous people.
In 2010 Clerc was cast as a soprano in Pecan Summer, the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian (Deborah Cheetham Fraillon) and involving an Indigenous cast, and will be an associate director for the 10th anniversary production.
She wrote The Fever and the Fret, which debuted at Yirra Yaakin in Perth, winning the 2017 Kate Challis Award. A production directed by Ursula Yovich was presented by the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney in November 2018.
Jub's directorial debut in film was Storytime, a short thriller film released in 2007. It screened at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in Sydney, the St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne, and at the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Canada. The story was based on the Nyul Nyul/Yawuru stories she had heard in childhood of the spirit of a woman that lived in the mangroves and stole children, the Gooynbooyn woman.
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Jub Clerc
Jub Clerc, also known as Suzanne Jub Clerc, is a Indigenous Australian actor, playwright, film director, and screenwriter. She has worked in film and television since the early 2000s and has also worked in theatre. She is best known for her 2022 debut feature Sweet As.
Suzanne Jub Clerc is a Nyulnyul and Yawuru woman. Her mother was actress Sylvia Clarke. Clarke grew up around Beagle Bay, Broome, in the Kimberley region in Western Australia, while Clerc grew up around Port Hedland, in the Pilbara. So although her ancestors were from the Nyul Nyul/Yawuru peoples of the Kimberleys, her family married into the Pilbara families four or five generations ago.
At the age of 14, Clerc was encouraged by her teachers to go on a photography trip for teenagers around the Pilbara. She did not realise it at the time, but the group were considered at-risk adolescents, after her grades had dropped due to an absent mother and somewhat troubled home life. She later said that this trip changed her life, enabling her to see other possibilities outside her home town, a mining town. Straight after this trip, she was flown to Broome, where her mother was rehearsing for the stage musical production of Bran Nue Dae, and stayed at the upmarket Cable Beach Club. Clerc sang backstage and toured with her mother for four years.
When she was 18 she was accepted into the Aboriginal Theatre Training program that emerged from Bran Nue Dae. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1997, after undertaking a three-year course in acting.
Clerc has said that she likes to write comedy, or dramedy, even about serious themes. She started writing because she wanted to write roles that represented people like her, as there were not many roles for Indigenous people that were written or directed by Indigenous people.
In 2010 Clerc was cast as a soprano in Pecan Summer, the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian (Deborah Cheetham Fraillon) and involving an Indigenous cast, and will be an associate director for the 10th anniversary production.
She wrote The Fever and the Fret, which debuted at Yirra Yaakin in Perth, winning the 2017 Kate Challis Award. A production directed by Ursula Yovich was presented by the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney in November 2018.
Jub's directorial debut in film was Storytime, a short thriller film released in 2007. It screened at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in Sydney, the St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne, and at the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Canada. The story was based on the Nyul Nyul/Yawuru stories she had heard in childhood of the spirit of a woman that lived in the mangroves and stole children, the Gooynbooyn woman.