Narrabundah College student Wajanoah Donohoe will head to Sydney next week for a week-long scholarship placement with Bell Shakespeare.

Selected from 88 students across the country, Donohoe is one of four recipients of the 2025 John Bell Scholarship, which runs January 27-31 at Bell Shakespeare’s headquarters in the Walsh Bay precinct.

Donohoe was singled out by CityNews theatre critic Arne Sjostedt for his “convincing and nuanced portrayal” of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Belconnen Arts Centre in April.

During the coming placement, he will take part in intensive acting masterclasses, train with Bell Shakespeare artists, undertake mentoring sessions, observe rehearsals for the company’s first major production of 2026, Julius Caesar, and attend live performances.

The experience culminates in a performance in which the four scholarship recipients present a Shakespeare monologue to the Julius Caesar cast and Bell Shakespeare founder John Bell.

Donohoe says: “Winning the John Bell Scholarship feels like an acknowledgement of all the development I have gone through as a creative over the past year.”

The other 2025 scholarship recipients are Rori Doherty, Tomaree High School, Salamander Bay, NSW; Safiah Sawal, Kildare College, Wagga Wagga, NSW; and Angus O’Farrell, Alice Miller School, Macedon, Victoria.