Born
in Glasgow, Stephen was inspired to write by his grandfather Alfred, who wrote
poems about his false teeth. | STEPHEN DAVIS | Downloadable CV |
Born
in Glasgow, Stephen was inspired to write by his grandfather Alfred, who wrote
poems about his false teeth.
Emigrating to Australia in 1982, Stephen penned his first play, A VERY BLACK COMEDY INDEED, when he was fifteen and it was published by Queensland's Playlab Press in 1989. Since then BLURRED, JUICE and BURNT have also been published.
Stephen acted for a bit until he realized he wasn’t very good. He appeared in productions for the Queensland State Theatre Company, La Boite and the feature films, BROKEN HIGHWAY, TUNNEL VISION and STREETFIGHTER
Two of Stephen's Feature Film scripts have been produced. His first feature CITY LOOP aka BORED OLIVES was filmed in Brisbane in 1999 and his second feature BLURRED (nominated for an AFI for best adapted screenplay) was filmed on the Gold Coast in 2002.
Stephen has written for television including episodes of the series PIRATE ISLANDS and CRASH PALACE and the animated TV Series FAIRY TALE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BLINKY BILL, HOOTA AND SNOOZ, TIME CRACKS and DOG & CAT NEWS. In 2002/2003 Stephen was the full time in-house writer for April Films developing a number of Film and Television projects. Currently he is working with Andrew McPhail developing a slate of dynamic projects for the international market.
Over the last ten years Stephen has been commissioned by a number of Australian theatre companies and universities to write plays which have included DROWN for Queensland Theatre Company, SCAR for La Boite Theatre, TURTLE ISLAND and WET DOGS for Barking Gecko Theatre Company, TRANZITIONS, JUICE and BLURRED for Queensland University of Technology, and BURNT for Central Queensland University.
A VERY BLACK COMEDY |
