DAVE HOUSTON

Dave has been working professionally in theatre since 1988 and is an experienced writer, actor, director, teacher and musician. A graduate of VCA (Acting) he has created more than 23 professionally theatre shows and over 35 shows for community organisations. He has toured his shows to International Festivals and around Australia. His solo theatre show, ‘Going My Way?’ toured to Edinburgh, gaining 4.5 star reviews in the Fringe.  He has toured International Festivals in Europe, Asia and Oceania, worked on radio for three years (3RRR) and worked as a musician recording albums in Mexico City, Bryon Bay, Arnhem Land and Melbourne. As well as his band projects he recently released a solo debut album and EP.
 
He has worked in Mexico & Thailand with theatre companies and musicians collaborating on creating theatrical work and records and has made several shows over long term residencies with at risk teenagers.  He has led and developed more than 10 theatre projects in a Community Cultural Development framework. Some of these have involved working with senior citizens and young people together.  He is experienced working with local government, mental health stakeholders, local government, sponsors and service providers across the sectors of arts, health and education.

 

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 developed skills in delivering visual art projects, using many traditional visual art mediums as well as film and multi-media. 

SCREEN

Dave has been involved in film and screen production for many years now. Apart from acting in films he has studies screen writing at RMIT part time since 2014 and is currently making a feature documentary on a 61-year old Indigenous man from Central Australia.