David was 17 when his play JUST A BLOKE was produced as part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Festival 2002. Previously his plays OBSESSED and NO MORE FLOWERS were given semi-staged readings as part of the Birmingham Rep’s Transmissions Season. In 2004, David represented the Royal Court at the Interplay Festival in Athens, and his play THE FIREWORKS PARTY was read at Birmingham Rep in the same year. In 2005 David was one of the writers selected for the Old Vic Theatre's 24 Hour Plays and the following year his play, ALL THEM THINGS THERE was read at Soho Theatre as part of their Core Cuts season. In 2007 David’s play FLIGHT PATH was produced by Out of Joint / Bush Theatre (London and U.K. tour). In 2008 David was the recipient of a children’s BAFTA for Best Secondary Learning Programme for his episode of L8er (Hi8tus and the BBC), in the same year his play ANY WHICH WAY, based on the testimonies of prisoners with whom he workshopped the script, had an acclaimed run at Only Connect Theatre. In 2009 David co-wrote THE FREEDOM PROJECT for Only Connect and this was followed by a Christmas show, BAD MAN CHRISTMAS, which was staged by prisoners in H. M. Wormwood Scrubs and ran for a week of public performances in the chapel of the prison.
David’s new play PENNY DREADFUL will be read as part of the Tricycle Theatre’s Women, Power & Politics season later this year and he is currently under commission to the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. David is also writing a new musical for Only Connect Theatre and working on a new series of L8er for Hi8tus / BBC.
David is currently the Pearson Playwright in residence 2009 / 2010 at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.
