Ciella is a writer, dramaturg, theatre-maker and mother of two living on Larrakia Country.

Her writing is embedded in the NT and concerned with the stories of women and girls.

Her play Hush won the 2024 NT Chief Minister’s Book Award for fiction. Hush premiered in 2022 at Flight Path Theatre, Sydney, and Brown’s Mart Theatre, Darwin, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the 2023 NT Literary Awards.

Earlier works have been performed at Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), Brown’s Mart Theatre, Darwin Fringe Festival and Short + Sweet Sydney.

Ciella works as a freelance dramaturg, and ran the ATYP Fresh Ink program for emerging NT writer from 2018-2021.