Hayley has been involved with Adelaide's amateur theatre community for 25+ years, first treading the boards at the Stirling Community Theatre with the Hills Youth Theatre in 1991.

Directing credits include The Sound of Music (NLTC), One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest (The Stirling Players), Musical of Musicals, the Musical! (Toot Toot Productions), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (HMC), Little Women the Musical (Therry Dramatic Society), God of Carnage (Stirling Players – Winner of ATG “Curtain Call” for Best Comedy & Best Ensemble), The Darling Buds of May (Therry Dramatic Society), [title of show] (Irregular Productions), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (HMC), Light in the Piazza (Davine Interventions), Spring Awakening (HMC), A Paper Tale: The Adelaide Office Live (Reasonably Theatrical) and as assistant director on Some Girl(s) (Uni of Adelaide Theatre Guild) and The Gondoliers (G&S Society).

As a performer, highlights have included Julie in Così (Mayfair Theatre), Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Lady Larken in Once Upon a Mattress and Oolie/Donna in City of Angels all for Northern Light Theatre Company (NLTC), plus many others with the Hills Musical Company, Tea Tree Players, G&S Society and NLTC.