Name David Stevens Role Writer | Plays The Sum of Us | |
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Books Queen: The Story of an American Family Awards AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominations Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Movies The Sum of Us, Breaker Morant, Merlin, Kansas, Crime and Punishment Similar People Kevin Dowling, Geoff Burton, Jonathan Hardy, Alex Haley, Bruce Beresford | ||
David Stevens (born 1940 in Palestine) is an Australian writer and director, best known for his work on The Sum of Us, A Town Like Alice, and Breaker Morant.
Stevens co-wrote Breaker Morant with Bruce Beresford and Jonathan Hardy, earning an Oscar nomination. He wrote the play The Sum of Us, which ran in New York for a year and won the Outer Critics Circle Award. He adapted it into a feature film, featuring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson, which won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay.
The Sum of Us is the third play in Stevens' "A Currency Trilogy". The first play is The Inn at the Beginning of the World. The second is The Beast and the Beauty, which had its world premiere at the Old Mill Theatre, South Perth, on 22 June 2012.
Stevens directed the Emmy Award-winning mini-series "A Town Like Alice" and wrote three novels – The Waters of Babylon, and two in collaboration with Alex Haley) Queen and Mama Flora's Family, which he then adapted into TV miniseries.
For his work with Haley, Stevens received an Image Award from the NAACP.
He has been contracted to write a feature film for Libertine Pictures, with the working title The Big Dig.
He lives in Tutukaka, New Zealand, and is an active member of the aviation website Airliners.net.