Lusi Faiva (born in Wellington) is a New Zealand-Samoan stage performer and dancer and a founding member of Touch Compass.
She has performed for the company in all its major shows in New Zealand and Australia since 1997 and sits on the Artistic Direction Panel.
I believe it is possible for anyone who has a disability to achieve their dreams in this able-bodied world” (Faiva)[5]One of her first shows Lusi’s Eden (2001), is an autobiographical performance based on her early childhood years spent living in institutions, which she reprised in 2002 and 2007.
This was truly ground-breaking work.”[7] Mr and Mrs Jones (2014), is a short film about her foster parents who taught her to read and write, enabling her to communicate with others.
[6] Faiva performed in Wellington's CubaDupa festival in 2021, collaborating with the theatre company Everybody Cool Lives Here and Tupe Lualua, creating a work called Taupou.