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Rachael Maza is the artistic director of Ilbijerri Theatre Company. She is the daughter of Indigenous artist and theatre director Bob Maza and Vera Blankman (a Dutch immigrant to Australia), and is the sister of Lisa Maza. Maza has many years of experience in theatre, film and television and has presented SBS's 'ICAM' and ABC's Message Stick. Maza performed in the films Radiance and The Sapphires and was the 2003 recipient of the 'Uncle Bob Maza Award Memorial Award' for Outstanding Contribution to Indigenous Theatre at the Victorian Indigenous Performing Arts Awards.

In 2011 Rachael was appointed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, and, in 2012, she was nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play for 'Jack Charles V The Crown'.

In 2012, Maza co-devised the play Beautiful One Day based on the death of an Aboriginal man in custody on Palm Island in 2004.