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Dave Houston Bio/CV 1 March 2022
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DAVE HOUSTON

Dave has been working in the arts since 1988, as an actor, musician, writer, director & producer providing music & theatre shows & workshops to schools, communities & festivals nationally and internationally. He has toured nationally & internationally, performed in numerous shows, written over 20 professional plays & screenplays, 35 community shows, recorded 7 studio albums, worked extensively in the youth sector, in community cultural development (CCD) with Indigenous & diverse communities & produced international CCD projects,  (Mexico, Thailand & Scotland).

He trained in acting at  the Victorian College of the Arts  & in Screenwriting at RMIT and manages Full-On Theatre, which has received extensive project grants & created a significant body of work.

​Dave has made several shows over long term residencies with at risk teenagers, marginalised communities, dairy farmers and whole towns, (Quambatook). He has led and developed more than 10 arts projects in a Community Cultural Development framework. Most of these have involved working with diverse communities, refugees, many Indigenous communities and marginalised people. Dave is experienced working with local government, mental health stakeholders, sponsors and service providers across the sectors of arts, health, education & tourism.


Since 2005 he has been a contracted artist for the Royal Children’s Hospital – Festival for Healthy Living - (Integrated Mental Health Unit) where he has been an artist in residence delivering wellbeing arts projects in areas of high youth suicide, (Robinvale) areas of social & emotional disadvantage (Werribee and Melton) and in areas affected by the 2009 Black Saturday bush fires. During these projects he has added to his performance skills by developing skills in delivering visual art projects, using many traditional visual art mediums as well as film and multi-media.

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​Contact  Dave  Houston  +61 0411 710 081   dave@fullon.biz

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Dave has been involved in film and screen production for many years now. Apart from acting in films he has studied screenwriting at RMIT and is currently making a feature documentary on a 63-year old Indigenous man from Central Australia. One of his best mates -- Keithie.
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