David Geary

David Geary (born 1963) is a Māori writer from New Zealand who is known for his plays The Learners Stand, Lovelocks Dream Run and Pack of Girls.

[3][1] While a student Geary submitted Kandy Cigarettes to the 1988 New Zealand Playwrights’ Workshop under the pseudonym of Kurt Davidson.

[1] In 1991 the full-length play by Geary Pack of Girls (Downstage, 1991) became a hit and was picked up in different venues and in the amateur theatrical network in New Zealand.

[2] In 1993 Lovelock’s Dream Run was at The Watershed (Auckland Theatre Company) and also published by Victoria University Press.

Ruapehu, one half of a double bill with Fiona Samuel’s Untitled was created with a group of actors that were presented under the title One Flesh at Downstage Theatre, 1996.