David Williamson

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David Keith Williamson AO (born 19 February 1942) is one of Australia's best-known playwrights.

He has also written screenplays and teleplays. David Williamson was born in Melbourne and brought up in Bairnsdale, Victoria.

He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960.

His early forays into the theatre were as an actor and writer of skits for the Engineers' Revue at Melbourne University's Union Theatre at lunchtime during the early 1960s.

After a stint as a lecturer for Swinburne University, he turned to writing plays in 1967.