David Ward

David John Scott Ward is an awardwinning writer director editor and visual artist based in Melbourne Australia In a career spanning more than a decade in the arts Ward has worked extensively as not only a writerdirector across both stage and screen but also as an actor dancer choreographer photographer and designer This versatility has allowed him to transfer his talents across numerous mediums and collaborators including The Australian Ballet Orchestra Victoria Opera Australia Qantas ABC and Disney just to name a few His film credits as writerdirector include his debut feature Lenore and the acclaimed short films Womb 2013 and Dorothy 2014both of which received the ATOM Award for Best Experimental Film in simultaneous yearsas well as countless documentaries commercials and music videos for a diverse range of collaborators and artists from Ben Folds and Hoodlem to Deborah Cheetham and David Hallberg His theatre credits as a director designer andor choreographer include The Shape of Things 2014 High Fidelity 2014 The Birds 2015 Gruesome Playground Injuries 2015 and When the Rain Stops Falling 2017 Ward is currently in the development stages of two new feature films