Some of Dallmeyer's plays have been considered controversial, for example Wanted: Dead or Alive which focused on Osama bin Laden's motives and was released on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
At the age of 26 he was the artistic director at Liverpool Playhouse, although he didn't enjoy it and instead wanted to focus on writing his own plays.
[2] He subsequently directed many productions at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Sheffield Crucible, Dundee Rep, Leeds Playhouse and several more.
[8] The Opium Eater, based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey,[4] has had more than a dozen performances across the United Kingdom.
[13] The play was performed in theatres across America covering 10 cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
[2] His one-man show, titled Hello Dali, based on artist Salvador Dalí[15] won a Fringe First award and has previously starred Sylvester McCoy[16] and Neil Cunningham.
[7] In 1986, Dallmeyer wrote The Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon as a piece of commissioned work for the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
[17] Based on the story of the first man to fly in Britain; James Tytler was a pioneer with the development of the hot air balloon.
[19] Dallmeyer wrote and performed in his controversial 50-minute one-man play,[20][21] Wanted Dead or Alive, in which Osama bin Laden is Santa Claus in a shopping mall.
It was released on the first September 11th attacks anniversary and attempts to explain possible reasons for Osama bin Laden's anger towards America.
[20][22] The performance prompted complaints from the US consulate and Dallmeyer received death threats and abusive phone calls.
[23] The play featured "strongly anti-American sentiments and condemns United States foreign policy"[22] and despite the backlash Dallmeyer has performed it over 100 times.