Merindah Donnelly is an Aboriginal woman from NSW living in Meanjin, Queensland and is currently Executive Producer BlakDance. Merindah has worked in Market Development at the Australia Council for the Arts and as creative producer for ISEA; International Symposium of Electronic Art, APAM 2014, National Indigenous Theatre Forum 2015 and National Indigenous Dance Forum 2017. In 2015 Merindah was a global International Society of Performing Arts fellow and worked on the Industry Series for the Talking Stick festival in Vancouver. In 2017 Merindah commenced a Masters in Cultural Leadership at NIDA and in 2018 was awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.