He wrote the book and lyrics to a number of musical works: three musicals with Terence Clarke – "The Venetian Twins"; "Variations" (Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Play Award, 1983); and "Summer Rain" (commissioned for a graduating class at NIDA) -, and others with Alan John ("Orlando Rourke"), David King ("The Betrothed", "The Voyage of Mary Bryant", "The Good Fight"), and Max Lambert ("Miracle City"); and an opera with Graham Dudley ("The Snow Queen"). He wrote the book of the original version of "The Boy from Oz", from the biography of the same name written by Stephen McLean which was produced by Ben Gannon with great success around Australia, and, after his death, in New York.