[10] Lui's play Black is the new White, was staged in 2017 at the Sydney Theatre Company.
The play contains illustrations by Barkindjii, Birri-Gubba artist Emily Johnson, visual animation by Oh Yeah Wow and directed by Declan Greene.
[14] In 2012, Lui was the first recipient of the Dreaming Award by The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council and was the inaugural recipient of the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award.
[15] In 2015 she was joint winner of the NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, for Kill the Messenger.
[17] Lui received the Nick Enright Prize for playwriting in the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Black is the New White.