Angelina is a Gooreng Gooreng, Mununjali, Birriah, and Gamilaraay emerging writer from Brisbane.
She is the first Aboriginal PhD graduate of Griffith University Film School, whose work focuses on First Nations humour. The primary component is a set of scripts for an original Aboriginal comedy series. Awarded as an American-Australian Fulbright Indigenous Scholar in 2011, her writing spans the arts and media, short and documentary films, journals, magazines, and online publications with the aim of of enhancing the discourse and representation of Aboriginal humour, and arts through both academic and creative writing.
In May 2025, Angelina was selected for the Seeding Storytellers program through Screenworks and the Australian Writers’ Guild. The program provided intensive training in note-taking, script coordinating and the basics of a writers’ room, conducted over three day-long online workshops led by industry experts Catherine Kelleher and Terence McCarthy.
