His stage plays include In Duty Bound (1979), Einstein (1981), Two (1983), Pax Americana (1984), The Levine Comedy (1986), Safe House (1989), Esterhaz (1990), Impropriety (1993), Choice (1994), Unknown Soldier (1996), The Goldberg Variations (2000), A Tree, Falling (2003), Ladies & Gentlemen (2004), Wrongful Life (2005), Controlled Crying (2006), Renaissance (2006), The Schelling Point (2010), Carbon Dating (2011), Stainless Steel Rat (2011, produced in London in 2012 under the title Man In The Middle), The Crown Versus Winslow (2011), Love Field (2013), The Soul Of Wittgenstein (2016), Certificate Of Life (2017), Window (2017), Unsolicited Male (2018), I Really Don’t Care (2019), Falling In Love Again (2020), Donating Felix (2020), Everyman & His Dog (2022) Anne Being Frank (2023) and Rootless Cosmopolitans (2024).  He has also written a telemovie, Death Duties (1991), three short films – Catch Perfect (2013), Crisis Actor (2024) and The Promised Land (2025), as well as two children’s books, Pigtales (1994) and Too Big (1997), and hundreds of feature articles and stories in a variety of magazines, newspapers and journals.  

His plays have been produced throughout Australia, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Israel and France, and have won a number of awards, including four Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, the Mitch Matthews Award (2006) and the Houston International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  He has also been shortlisted for many awards over the years, including the Carlo Annoni International Playwriting Award (2021 – finalist), the Woodward International Playwriting Award (2020 – finalist), the Patrick White Award (twice), the Screencraft Stage Play Contest (semi-finalist 2019), the Noosa Arts One Act Play Competition (2020), the Griffin Award (five times), The Victorian Green Room Awards (twice), the Australian Writers’ Guild (twelve times), various state Premiers’ Literary Awards, was a finalist in the New York-based Jewish Plays Project (2023) and was longlisted for the Frank Moffet Mosier Fellowship (NYC, 2024).

His one-woman show entitled ‘Anne Being Frank’ won the Broadway World Awards for Best Off-Broadway Solo Performance and Best Off-Broadway Production.