Paul Michael Davies is an Australian television script writer, novelist and playwright, who has worked on a number of Crawford television series. He has written several plays for the TheatreWorks theatre company, a leader in staging situation theatre.
Davies moved into film and theatre work, working as a writer, actor and director. He co-wrote and directed the documentary drama film Exits (1980) which was taught on the history syllabus of selected high schools.[4] He co wrote Niel Lynne (1985) with David Baker. He wrote and performed in four John Hughes short or documentary films[5][6] - November Eleven (1979), Traps (1985), All That Is Solid (1988),[7] and One Way Street (1990). He has also co-written Red Ted and the Great Depression (1994)[8] and Holy Rollers (2000),[9]
Theatre work
Davies became a founding member, writer and performer of the TheatreWorks ensemble in Melbourne. He wrote several “location theatre” plays for TheatreWorks - Storming Mont Albert by Tram (1982) which was performed on trams in Melbourne, Adelaide and around the world for a number of years with great success.[10][11] He also wrote Breaking Up in Balwyn (1983) which was staged on a riverboat,[12]Living Rooms (1986), which was staged in an historic mansion and Full House/No Vacancies (1989) which was staged in a boarding house. On Shifting Sandshoes was staged in 1988.
He published his first novel, 33 Postcards from Heaven in 2004.[1]
Davies has taught film and scriptwriting at a number of Australian universities and has been published in drama and industry journals and magazines. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013 with a thesis entitled Really Moving Drama, a study of TheatreWorks’ ‘location plays’.[13] 49 boxes of his papers, scripts and other materials are held in the University of Queensland Fryer Library.[14]
^Davies, Paul (2016). "The films of John Hughes: a history of independent screen production in Australia [Book Review]". Metro Magazine: Media and Education Magazine. 187: 122.
