David Stevens

David Stevens (22 December 1940 – 17 July 2018) was an New Zealand-Australian writer and director, best known for his work on The Sum of Us, A Town Like Alice, and Breaker Morant.

Stevens was born in 1940, in Tiberias, Palestine where his father was an aircraft engineer working on flying boats.[3] In 1960, he left to emigrate to Australia, however his ship was diverted to New Zealand where he remained, until moving to Australia in the early 1970s.

Stevens co-wrote Breaker Morant with Bruce Beresford and Jonathan Hardy, earning an Oscar nomination. He wrote the play The Sum of Us, which ran in New York for a year and won the Outer Critics Circle Award. He adapted it into a feature film, featuring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson, which won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay.