DaveArmstrong
- Writer
Dave Armstrong writes plays, books, award-winning comedy shows (Spin Doctors) and dramas (quake tale Hope and Wire). He also plays trumpet. Armstrong has been creating comedy alongside director Danny Mulheron since childhood, including Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby — the tale of an un PC teacher — and Samoan family comedy The Semisis. Armstrong also co-wrote award-winning play Niu Sila with bro'Town's Oscar Kightley, which chronicles the friendship between a polynesian and a palagi.
Screenography
Awards
2014 SWANZ Scriptwriter Awards (NZ Writers Guild)
Nominated for Best Television Drama Episode (with Gaylene Preston): for Hope and Wire, episode five
2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Script - Comedy (with Danny Mulheron and Tom Scott): for Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby
“Just about everything I have learnt about literary and dramatic structure has a parallel in classical music composition. Good dialogue has a rhythm, so if you have a musical ear you can hear it when it works.”