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DAVE HOUSTONDave Houston is Artistic Director of Full On Theatre with 30+ years’ experience creating and touring professional theatre nationally and internationally, and delivering community-based projects nationally. He has developed 20+ productions and strong partnerships with national mental health organisations and First Nations communities across Australia.
Dave’s been making theatre professionally since 1988 – acting, writing, directing, producing and playing music in work that lands in festivals, professional venues, schools, and communities. He trained in acting at the Victorian College of the Arts and screenwriting at RMIT, and regularly undertakes workshops with international theatre teachers. At 24, he took his first solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Decades later, he created his second solo show, STILL HERE by Dave & the Daves, a depression comedy. In 2024, he co-created AWKward in New York City during a residency. He is now developing a third solo show, ME vs ME, and collaborating on STRONG MOB, an Indigenous-led project five years in the making, premiering 2027. Dave continues to make theatre that is entertaining, socially engaged, and profoundly human. 
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SHOOT TO CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1987-1990 co-host of radio show, The I Don't Wanna Go Out Show, 3RRR, Melbourne
1993–1996 creating/performing children's show That’s Another Story more than 1,800 times nationally and Internationally
1994 touring my first solo show, Going My Way, to the Edinburgh Fringe at 24
1996 receiving an international children’s festival commission in Aberdeen, Scotland
2002 working in the APY Lands alongside Yankunytjatjara Elder Keith Aitken
2005 undertaking a three-month Mexican residency and recording project
2009 making Escape from Worryville and Hard Rubbish Day (2011) with 80 teenagers. Both became professional touring two-handers
2010 taking a touring party of six, including elder Keith Aiken and a blind Cambodian chef, to Cambodia for three weeks
2012 playing with Tom E. Lewis and senior Arnhem Land loremen/songmen at Darwin Festival
2014 residency in Mali, West Africa, studying djembe
2016 co-creating E-Bride in Chiang Mai, Thailand during a three-month residency
2018 artist in residence for an entire town Quambatook, Vic
2024 self-funding travel to ASSITEJ World Congress Cuba, seeding contacts for ASSITEJ 2027
2024 co-creating AWKward with Indigenous artist Mitch King in New York City
I’m creating third solo show, ME vs ME
1987-1990 co-host of radio show, The I Don't Wanna Go Out Show, 3RRR, Melbourne
1993–1996 creating/performing children's show That’s Another Story more than 1,800 times nationally and Internationally
1994 touring my first solo show, Going My Way, to the Edinburgh Fringe at 24
1996 receiving an international children’s festival commission in Aberdeen, Scotland
2002 working in the APY Lands alongside Yankunytjatjara Elder Keith Aitken
2005 undertaking a three-month Mexican residency and recording project
2009 making Escape from Worryville and Hard Rubbish Day (2011) with 80 teenagers. Both became professional touring two-handers
2010 taking a touring party of six, including elder Keith Aiken and a blind Cambodian chef, to Cambodia for three weeks
2012 playing with Tom E. Lewis and senior Arnhem Land loremen/songmen at Darwin Festival
2014 residency in Mali, West Africa, studying djembe
2016 co-creating E-Bride in Chiang Mai, Thailand during a three-month residency
2018 artist in residence for an entire town Quambatook, Vic
2024 self-funding travel to ASSITEJ World Congress Cuba, seeding contacts for ASSITEJ 2027
2024 co-creating AWKward with Indigenous artist Mitch King in New York City
I’m creating third solo show, ME vs ME
Contact Dave Houston +61 0411 710 081 [email protected]