Originally hailing from nowhere in particular, Indiana grew up attending nine schools across three states, taking every possible opportunity to involve herself in the arts.
Whilst living on the Gold Coast, she had the opportunity to appear in films such as Aquaman and Dora and the Lost City of Gold as a featured extra and dancer. On these larger-than-life sets, Indiana’s love for the world of filmmaking and performing was firmly cemented.
At the beginning of 2020, after receiving a full Dramatic and Musical Theatre Scholarship to Australian Performing Arts Grammar School, Indiana relocated to Sydney to pursue her acting career. There, she wrote her first play How to Have Hard Conversations, scenes from which she later directed and showcased, and performed the role of Guilty Party in A Series of Public Apologies, directed by Harriet Gordon-Anderson.
She was one of 12 international students invited to New York for the final round of acting auditions for the Juilliard School, and later committed to PACE University New York for Musical Theatre on a talent and merit scholarship. The program was, however, financially ‘off-the-rails’, and Indiana stayed in Australia, beginning her studies to become a lawyer.
After attending the 2022 production of A Chorus Line at the Sydney Opera House, she bawled her eyes out to her mother, went home, and promptly deferred from her Criminology and Criminal Justice Law degree that night. This led her to joining Actors Centre Australia in 2023 at the age of 18.
During her time at Actors Centre Australia, Indiana has had the pleasure of playing Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler directed by Adam Cook, as well as Jody in Don’s Party, Third Witch/Murderer/Menteith in Macbeth, Lorraine in A Lie of the Mind, Kit/Shona/Waitress in Top Girls and Marie in States of Decay.
Outside of acting, Indiana is a vocalist, musician, songwriter and avid movie-watcher. She is also an experienced marine stewardess and deckhand, a job she proudly calls ‘the second best in the world,’ with acting, of course, in first place. Indiana is elated to be entering the industry with her first-ever-leading-on-screen role as Lou and Puff in PUFF, coming in 2026, as well as her screenwriting debut My Mum, The Assassin, which she is currently developing independently.
Having successfully pitched to New Theatre to remount ACA’s production of A Lie of the Mind in January 2026, Indiana is thrilled to reprise the role of Lorraine alongside her fellow graduates.
