Bio

Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean inter-disciplinary storyteller. She is a NIDA Acting graduate and has performed across stages in Australia and appeared in films and television. Wendy co-wrote the hit adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for Queensland Theatre Company, which premiered to sell out audiences in 2025 and in 2024, she wrote The Scene Project: Flowers in Antarctica, for QT’s Education Season. Wendy won the 2024 Patrick White Playwright’s Award for her play, REALish. The play was also a finalist for Best New Play in in the Australian Theatre Festival NYC Awards and had a reading at MTC as a part of the Cyber Electric program in 2023. Wendy received a 2023 Malcom Robertson Foundation Commission for a new play, Kirk’s Backyard (My First Caucasion Play). She won the 2023 Griffin Award for new Australian playwriting for her play I am Kegu and was a playwriting Fellow at QT in the same year. I am Kegu was also shortlisted for the 2022 Patrick White Playwright’s Award. Wendy was a member of the Emerging Writers Group at Sydney Theatre Company in 2020/2021 and was a Playwrighting Fellow at Queensland Theatre. She has completed writing residencies at Griffin Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre where she developed her stage plays Jalbu Meri (which will premiere in 2025 at KXT) and REALish.

Wendy’s web series, Bad Ancestors (which she also starred in) was produced as a part of  ABC’s Fresh Blood initiative and was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Online Series. She co-wrote an episode of the ABC comedy Gold Diggers (CBS Studios / The Alliance), for which she was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Comedy Script and is developing a slate of tv and film projects. One of Wendy‘s quests as a writer and artist is to make alive what is quiet and asleep in Melanesian stories and unpack the myriad of layers that is Black Pacific Islander identity.

For acting enquiries, please contact info@imcompany.com.au