Waverley Stanley Jnr is a Gumbaynggirr, Kabi Kabi, Birri Gubba, Kanju man living in Magandjin (Brisbane), Queensland. His career began performing onstage in poetry competitions. His screen credits include the TV show Cleverman and Harrow. Waverley graduated from QUT with a degree in Creative Writing in 2023. 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 was 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.
In May 2025, Waverley was selected for the Seeding Storytellers program through Screenworks and the Australian Writers’ Guild. The program provided intensive training in note-taking, script coordinating and the basics of a writers’ room, conducted over three day-long online workshops led by industry experts Catherine Kelleher and Terence McCarthy.
