Laurence Henry Collinson (7 September 1925 – 10 November 1986) was a British and Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist, and secondary school teacher.
Born in Leeds, England,[1] Collinson's family moved to Australia in 1930.
While still at Brisbane State High School, Collinson and fellow students Barrett Reid and Cecel Knopke started the magazine Barjai: A Meeting Place for Youth, which from 1943 to 1944 published the literary avant-garde in Adelaide and Melbourne.
His play Thinking Straight was produced by Inter-Action as part of their Homosexual Acts season, opening 10 March 1975 at the Almost Free Theatre.
[4] In the 1970s he worked in his West Hampstead apartment as a gestalt / transactional analysis group therapist.