Dave Armstrong has twice won the award for Best New New Zealand Play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards (Niu Sila, The Tutor) and Best Comedy Script at the 2003 AFTA Television Awards (Spin Doctors).

His musical play King and Country, which marks New Zealand's role in the WW1 Battle of Passchendaele, has played to over ten festivals throughout New Zealand, and the radio adaptation was highly commended in the 2007 Media Peace Awards.

Niu Sila (co-written with Oscar Kightley), was performed at the 2007 Pasifika Styles Festival in Cambridge England and The Tutor has had seasons at Wellington (Circa Theatre), Auckland (Auckland Theatre Company), Palmerston North (Centrepoint Theatre), Hamilton and Wanaka.

Dave has adapted a number of books and stories for the stage including Margaret Mahy’s The Singing Bus Queue (Downstage Theatre, Taranaki and Bay of Islands Festival) and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Downstage Theatre, Wellington and Auckland Theatre Company). Most recently Dave has adapted Sia Figiel’s novel Where We Once Belonged for stage production by the Auckland Theatre Company for the 2008 International Festival of the Arts in Wellington and for a season in Auckland.

Co-creator of the TV comedy Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, which has screened in New Zealand and Australia, Dave's other television credits include Skitz, The Semisis, Spin Doctors, Bro’town (script editor) and Staunch (script consultant). 

Dave is also the author of True Colours, a satirical account of the 1996 election. Foodbanquet – a chapter from his upcoming novel The Speechwriter – was selected for the 2007 Six Pack of writing published for New Zealand Book Month.

Dave was Writer in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington in 2007.

NB: some of Dave's plays have EXPANDABLE casts - click on title to check