He was encouraged to write plays while at NYU by one of his teachers, the playwright Israel Horovitz. His many plays include: "Good Works", "Blackrock", "Daylight Saving", "Mongrels" (about the relation between Australian playwrights Jim McNeil and Peter Kenna, the latter a friend), "The Female Factory", "A Man with Five Children", "On the Wallaby", and "A Poor Student", many of them published by Currency Press. His plays – which include French and Italian translations and adaptations – have been performed by all major Australian theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Company B, the Australian Opera (as it then was), Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, the Ensemble Theatre, Playbox, La Boite Theatre, and the Australian Theatre for Young People. His one-act theatre-in-education play "A Property of the Clan" was developed into the full-length play, and later film, "Blackrock" (1997).