Dax Carnay-Hanrahan

Dax Carnay-Hanrahan is a Filipino trans theatre-maker, writer, and performer who cut their teeth in Manila’s theatre scene before bringing their chaos and charm to Naarm/Melbourne in 2020. Their writing fuses satire, identity, and emotional grit—earning them spots in the 2023 Malthouse Emerging Writers Group and the 2024 PACT x Performance Space Queer Development Program. They were the first commissioned writer for the Festival of Australian Queer Theatre with Chasing Dick: A Love Story. Also crowned BroadwayWorld’s Best Performer in a Play (Melbourne), Dax creates work that’s gutsy, glittery, and unapologetically loud—just like the stories we need.

• Website www.daxcarnay.com/