Waverley Stanley Jr.
Waverley Stanley Jnr is a Gumbaynggirr, Kabi Kabi, Birri Gubba, Kaantju man living in Magandjin (Brisbane), Queensland. His creative career began performing on stage in poetry competitions, and he has also had screen roles in the TV series Cleverman and Harrow.
In 2019 Waverley took part in Playlab and QPAC’s emerging writers’ program, Sparks and the following year he joined La Boite’s Assembly program as a writer. Inspired to take his writing to the next level, Waverley enrolled in QUT’s Creative Writing Course in 2023 and that same year he was chosen to be a part of the Australia Plays Transform First Nations Playwrights Retreat to Bundanon. In 2024 he was invited to take part in Ignition, a QPAC and Playlab program that sees Indigenous writers prepare a full draft of a script to be read and in 2025 his new play The Lottery was chosen to feature in Moogahlin Theatre Company’s Yellamundie Festival.
Waverley has since completed his first full-length theatrical script, 21st Century Psychotic, based on events from his own life, which he has also adapted for TV. He is currently working on three new plays and two feature films – A Very Murri Christmas and a zombie apocalypse blockbuster set in Brisbane called Ferry.