David Stevens (22 December 1940 – 17 July 2018) was an Australian writer and director, best known for his work on Breaker Morant, A Town Like Alice, and The Sum of Us.
[4] Stevens co-wrote Breaker Morant with Bruce Beresford and Jonathan Hardy, earning an Oscar nomination.
He wrote the play The Sum of Us, which ran in New York for a year and won the Outer Critics Circle Award.
The second is The Beast and the Beauty, which had its world premiere at the Old Mill Theatre, South Perth, on 22 June 2012.
[6] Stevens directed the Emmy Award-winning mini-series A Town Like Alice and wrote three novels – The Waters of Babylon, and two in collaboration with Alex Haley: Queen and Mama Flora's Family, which he then adapted into TV miniseries.