13 Facts About David Williamson

David Keith Williamson was born on 1942 and is an Australian playwright, who has written screenplays and teleplays.

David Williamson became known in the early 1970s with his political comic drama Don's Party, and other well-known plays include The Club, Travelling North, and Emerald City.

David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1942, and was brought up in Bairnsdale.

David Williamson initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960, but left and graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1965.

David Williamson completed a Master of Arts in Psychology in 1970, and then completed further postgraduate research in social psychology.

David Williamson later lectured in social psychology at Swinburne, where he remained until 1972.

David Williamson first turned to writing and performing in plays in 1967 with La Mama Theatre Company and the Pram Factory, and rose to prominence in the early 1970s, with works such as Don's Party, a comic drama set during the 1969 federal election; and The Removalists.

David Williamson collaborated on the screenplays for Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously.

Recent work has included Dead White Males, a satirical approach to postmodernism and university ethics; Up for Grabs, which starred Madonna in its London premiere; and the Jack Manning Trilogy which take as their format community conferencing, a new form of restorative justice, in which David Williamson became interested in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

David Williamson had a serious health problem, cardiac arrhythmia, which had required frequent hospitalisation.

David Williamson was instrumental in the founding of the Noosa Long Weekend Festival, a cultural festival in Noosa, Queensland, where he lives.

David Williamson is married to Kristin David Williamson who have homes in Sydney and on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

In 2005, David Williamson received the JC David Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance.