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David Allen
4 booksDAVID ALLEN was born in Birmingham, England in 1936 and has an Honours degree in English. He taught in Uganda, East Africa between 1966 and 1970 and migrated to Australia in 1972 where he lectured in drama, worked as a theatre director and wrote extensively for the stage, radio and television.
His plays have been produced all over Australia and in the UK, Germany, Holland, Ireland and the USA. They include Cheapside, Gone With Hardy, Pommies, Modest Expectations and Upside Down at the Bottom of the World. Television credits range from Neighbours, Flying Doctors and Rafferty's Rules to Snowy, GP and Blue Heelers. David has taught at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, won two Writers Guild 'Awgies' and the Victorian Premier's prize for drama.
As well as the novel Kabaka Lear David has written Foul Papers, a satirical novel set in Sydney as it gears up for the Millennium Olympics, and In the War, a tale of growing up in the English Midlands during the Second World War.
He is married, lives in Sydney and has two daughters and four granddaughters.
His plays have been produced all over Australia and in the UK, Germany, Holland, Ireland and the USA. They include Cheapside, Gone With Hardy, Pommies, Modest Expectations and Upside Down at the Bottom of the World. Television credits range from Neighbours, Flying Doctors and Rafferty's Rules to Snowy, GP and Blue Heelers. David has taught at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, won two Writers Guild 'Awgies' and the Victorian Premier's prize for drama.
As well as the novel Kabaka Lear David has written Foul Papers, a satirical novel set in Sydney as it gears up for the Millennium Olympics, and In the War, a tale of growing up in the English Midlands during the Second World War.
He is married, lives in Sydney and has two daughters and four granddaughters.
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