Waverley Stanley Jnr is a Gumbaynggirr, Barunggam, Birri Gubba man living in Meanjin, Queensland. His career began performing onstage in poetry competitions. His screen credits include the TV show Cleverman and Harrow. Waverley has just graduated from Creative Writing at QUT. In 2019 he was a part of Playlab and QPAC’s emerging writers’ program, Sparks. In 2020 he was part of the La Boite Theatre Company, Assembly program. In 2024 he is apart of Ignition, a QPAC and Playlab program that sees indigenous writers prepare a full draft of a script to be read. Waverley has written his first full length theatrical script, 21st Century Psychotic, based on events from his own life.

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Highly Commended — The Hage Award for First Nations Writers (2024)