HAPPY FERAREN is a playwright, actor and improviser based in Sydney. SAVIOR is her debut play, developed through the 2021 Griffin Theatre Company and Create NSW Incubator Fellowship program. Originally from the Philippines, Happy has been a member of Silly People’s Improv Theater (SPIT) Manila, Asia’s leading improv theatre company, since 2007, touring festivals in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Chicago and New York, and part of the organising team of the Manila Improv Festival, the largest in Asia, since 2012. She presented for Philippine national radio and television, and was a supporting actor in the feature film My Candidate (Quantum Films). She also co-founded Bantay.ph, a youth-based anti-corruption NGO, and worked for Rappler, the award-winning independent newsroom.

In Sydney, she improvised for Slide Night with Rove McManus (Sydney Opera House), and acted in Slanted Theatre’s Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (KXT). Onscreen, she was featured in Limitless with Chris Hemsworth (National Geographic). Her long-running Filipino Australian improv team Fillow Talk has been nominated ‘Best in Comedy’ for the Sydney Fringe, has held a performing arts residency at Brand X and has toured festivals around Australia and New Zealand. She has been the Artistic Director of Laugh Masters Academy and the 2019 Australian Improv Festival, and is currently on the Board of Directors of Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP).