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Kylie Bracknell (formerly Kylie Farmer) [Kaarljilba Kaardn] is an Aboriginal Australian actor, writer, TV presenter, and theatre director from the southwest of Western Australia – the Nyungar nation. As an actor, Kylie has appeared in television programs such as The Gods Of Wheat Street and Redfern Now, films including Ace Of Spades, Stone Bros and SA Black Thing and theatre productions The Sapphires, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The White Divers Of Broome, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo And Juliet, One Day In ‘67, King Hit and Aliwa. She hosts the children’s television program Waabiny Time and is a past presenter of the Marngrook Footy Show. Kylie directed Windmill Baby as an associate artist at Belvoir Street Theatre and served as assistant director on short film and theatre productions. She was also a co-artistic director for the large scale Welcome To Country event as a part of the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival. Kylie co-wrote the short film Main Actors and has translated selected Shakespearean sonnets into the Nyungar language for a performance at Shakespeare’s Globe in London as part of their ‘Globe to Globe’ festival (2012). Kylie has coordinated and managed a variety of theatre, film, and television, and radio industry programs. She was a senior workshop leader for Yirra Yaakin's ‘Sonnets in Noongar’ schools' program, script and acting coach for Ilbijerri Theatre Company, program manager of the Media and Screen Industry Indigenous Employment Program for Screen Australia, and manager of the Indigenous Department at AFTRS.
Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and later Thomas the Tank Engine and Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!) is a British children's television series created by Reverend W. Awdry and Britt Allcroft that aired across 24 series between 1984 and 2021. Based on The Railway Series books by Awdry and later his son Christopher Awdry, it follows the adventures of Thomas, an anthropomorphised steam locomotive on the fictional North Western Railway on the Island of Sodor, and other engines including Edward, Henry, Gordon, and James. The series grew to include additional locomotives and other vehicles, all of which work for the Fat Controller who wants his trains to be "really useful engines". In the United States, it had its first broadcasting with the spin-off series Shining Time Station on PBS in 1989. The series also had a short-lived sister series called Tugs in 1989. The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), having acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002. Mattel has announced a 2D-animated reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, which premiered on September 13, 2021 on Cartoon Network. Originally announced as new series of the original show,[5] it was later designated a new show altogether by Mattel.
