Dave Armstrong (playwright)

His television writer credits include Spin Doctors, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Great War Stories, and script editor for bro'Town.

[4]In 2004 Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley co-wrote the play Niu Sila, about the friendship between a Samoan and a Palagi boy in 1960s New Zealand.

In 2006 Armstrong and Oscar Kightley received the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage, for Niu Sila which they co-wrote.

[6] In her New Zealand Listener review of the Auckland Theatre Company production, Natasha Hay called Niu Sila "a triumph.

The schools' version[9] was published in 2007 by the New Zealand branch of Cengage Learning, and features study resources and drama activities.