Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean interdisciplinary storyteller and a NIDA Acting graduate. Wendy works across live performance and film as an actor, writer and visual artist. A former member of the Sydney Theatre Company's Emerging Writers group and a Writing Fellow at Queensland Theatre, Wendy's play, ‘I am Kegu’ won the prestigious Griffin Award for 2023 after being shortlisted in 2022 for the Patrick White Playwrights Award and the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. Wendy has had stage plays in development programs across various theatre companies; Melbourne theatre company, Queensland theatre company, Griffin Theatre Company and Darlinghurst. Wendy is a recipient of the 2023 Malcolm Robertson Foundation Commission through Malthouse Theatre Company to write her play 'Kirk's Backyard (My first caucasian play)'. Wendy's stage play 'REALish' won runner-up for the Australian Theatre Festival NYC for the 2023 New Play Award. In 2022 Wendy was part of the creative team who worked on a TV series called 'It's Fine, I'm Fine' that went onto premier at Canneseries. Wendy wrote three episodes and also acted in the TV series. The series went on to be nominated for an AACTA award for Best Digital Series or Channel. In 2021 Wendy's visual arts project entitled 'm e r i' exhibited at Northsite Contemporary Arts gallery in Cairns and then in June 2022, it was exhibited at the Brisbane Powerhouse. 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.