[1] He attended private schools in Adelaide and then Flinders University Drama Centre, where he studied acting with Zora Semberova and Yutaka Wada.
[1] While still at university he performed as a dancer with the E-Motion Dance Company in works by choreographer Moshe Kedem and in the New Opera production Renard the Fox.
[citation needed] He returned to Adelaide and worked as an actor, writer and director with a number of theatre-in-education companies, performing in hundreds of schools across South Australia.
His most notable appearance was in Magpie Theatre's world première season of British playwright David Holman's No Worries at the 1984 Adelaide Festival.
His first novel for teenagers, Kid Brother, was published in 1994, and he was awarded the Carclew Fellowship (for writers for young people) at the 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
[2][1] He was on the National Executive from 1992 to 1996,[2][1] and was a founding board member of the Australian Writers' Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS),[2] and chair from 2004 to 2007.