Fearless

In the unforgiving glare of stage light, Dizzy – rap artist, fighter, and survivor – stands defiant with two black eyes and a split lip badly concealed under heavy make-up, but here she faces her worst fear; those who would put her down, laugh at her, shame her for risking herself for her dream. As she looks out into the darkened auditorium, she can almost hear them sniggering. What’s a beat-up girl from the bush doing in this rap comp anyway? Dizzy’s got to ask herself the same thing. 

Arising also from JUTE’s Write Sparks script development program, Townsville-born and Cairns-based rapper and emerging First Nations writer, Charmaine “Dizzy” Doolan’s uncompromising new work throbs with anger, power, and ultimately triumph over a lifetime of wrong turns. The work fuses rap storytelling with evocative blues, two powerful protest music genres that express the journey of one First Nations family.

Dizzy is a First Nations woman from Queensland’s Takalak, Agwamin, Gureng Gureng and Wokka Wokka people who made a national name for herself in the hip-hop scene and works on a number of projects both personally and with SisHop out-fit, “Oetha”. She attended the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts in Brisbane and graduated with a diploma in acting.