David lives in Houghton-le-Spring and has spent many years writing and performing for the theatre:
- The Eyes of Another Race, about the disgraced Irish Nationalist Sir Roger Casement and David’s first play, won the People’s Play Award
- Distant Sun appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe (starring the late Derek Fowlds)
- The Fabric of Life, about Victorian art critic John Ruskin, played for a summer season at Ruskin’s home in the Lake District
- The Big Picture premiered at the Customs House, South Shields
- Bonny Babies won a Guiness Pub Theatre Award
- Signals, produced by Hands On NE in 2016, had a North East tour
- The Desert Queen, about the explorer Gertrude Bell, also produced by Hands On, premiered in Washington, Tyne & Wear, the town where Gertrude was born, and had two short tours.
- The Red Trail, his latest play, about a troupe of mountebanks who stumble into the 1916 Easter Rising, received the Champions Trophy.
David has also written pantomimes for the Royalty Theatre, Sunderland, and several children’s plays for Theatre Space NE, including The Adventures of King Arthur and George & the Dragon.
David is also responsible for the character of Owen Brecon (Wales’s greatest nature poet, 1984!), who escaped from the play Signals, and is still on the loose.