Andrea James is an Aboriginal Australian playwright and theatre director, best known for her plays Yangali Yangali and Sunshine Super Girl, the latter about tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
Her works have been staged throughout Australia as well as in the United Kingdom, Paris and New York City.
[3] James' play Sunshine Super Girl, about Wiradjuri champion tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley, has been produced by Performing Lines.
It premiered in Griffith, New South Wales in October 2020[3] (its Melbourne Theatre Company debut having been postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria[4]), subsequently being performed at the Sydney Festival in January 2021.
[4] As of June 2022[update] James is an associate artist at the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney, where she is producing Melissa Bubnic's Ghosting the Party which opened at the Stables Theatre, Sydney in May, until 18 June 2022.