THE AUTHORS
XAVIER COY
LLOYD ALLISON-YOUNG
JAY JAMES-MOODY
Xavier's plays include Smokin’ Joe, Caught Out, Distorted, Are You Listening Now? and Charles & Larry.
He wrote for Channel 10’s Five Bedrooms and his 2023 short film Fighting premiered at Sydney Film Festival.
The stage version of Fighting won the Silver Gull Award and debuted to rave reviews in 2025.
Xavier says, "For me writing came out
Xavier's plays include Smokin’ Joe, Caught Out, Distorted, Are You Listening Now? and Charles & Larry.
He wrote for Channel 10’s Five Bedrooms and his 2023 short film Fighting premiered at Sydney Film Festival.
The stage version of Fighting won the Silver Gull Award and debuted to rave reviews in 2025.
Xavier says, "For me writing came out of necessity. It began as a form of catharsis. I was struggling with my mental health and had to find a way to make sense of what was rattling around in my brain. As soon as I started, I never stopped. I was able to turn concerns, worries, fears and ideas into story. I found my release and consequently my vocation."
Xavier wrote, directed, produced and starred in the feature film Unremarkable which began streaming in 2026. He is also the author of Living With Bipolar, a book illustrated by Michael Arvithis
JAY JAMES-MOODY
LLOYD ALLISON-YOUNG
JAY JAMES-MOODY
Jay James-Moody is an award-winning writer, director, actor and producer whose work has helped reshape independent music theatre in Australia.
He conceived, co-wrote, directed and produced the world-premiere musical The Dismissal, earning the 2024 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Music Theatre and the David Williamson Prize.
His writin
Jay James-Moody is an award-winning writer, director, actor and producer whose work has helped reshape independent music theatre in Australia.
He conceived, co-wrote, directed and produced the world-premiere musical The Dismissal, earning the 2024 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Music Theatre and the David Williamson Prize.
His writing credits include Straight From the Hart, Caught Out, Good Omens (book, co-written), The Day of the Triffids, and revising and adapting Alan Jay Lerner's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
A founding force behind Hayes Theatre Co and longtime Artistic Director of Squabbalogic (2006–2023), Jay’s directing work has received more than 40 excellence nominations.
He is a 2022 Mike Walsh Fellow and a frequent collaborator with Australia’s leading cultural institutions.
As a performer, he has appeared with Opera Australia, Sydney Theatre Company, and in the original Australian cast of The Book of Mormon.
LLOYD ALLISON-YOUNG
LLOYD ALLISON-YOUNG
LLOYD ALLISON-YOUNG
An accomplished musician and songwriter, Lloyd is the frontman for the Paris-based rock group The Everly Ills.
Lloyd Allison-Young hails from Canberra, Australia and is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting [New York] and the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq [Paris].
Lloyd has appeared in films including That’s No
An accomplished musician and songwriter, Lloyd is the frontman for the Paris-based rock group The Everly Ills.
Lloyd Allison-Young hails from Canberra, Australia and is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting [New York] and the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq [Paris].
Lloyd has appeared in films including That’s Not Me and The Black Balloon, television series such as Deadly Women, All Saints, and The Strip, and numerous national commercial campaigns.
Lloyd received critical acclaim in three back-to-back productions; as the mad PADRAIG in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, the merry monarch KING CHARLES II in Nell Gwynn, and as DEV in the Sydney Theatre Award Winning production of Stupid F*cking Bird.