Dave Armstrong is an experienced and award-winning television writer. His television credits include the sketch comedies Public Eye, Skitz, Away Laughing, Facelift and Jandals Away. Dave co-created (with Danny Mulheron) and co-wrote two series of the acclaimed comedy Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, which screened on TV One in New Zealand and on Australia's ABC network. Dave's other comedy credits include Spin Doctors, for which he won an AFTA award for Best Comedy Script, Bro'town (script editor), Diplomatic Immunity, B and B and The Semisis

His television drama credits include CoverStory, the TV movie Spies and Lies and Billy (co-written with Briar Grace-Smith), a biopic about Billy T James which was screened in 2012. Dave co-wrote, with director Gaylene Preston, Hope and Wire, a six-hour drama series about the Christchurch Earthquake

Dave has been a story-liner and script writer for Shortland Street, has written scripts for the consumer rights programme Target and Q – a science programme for children, and has been a judge for the Qantas Television awards

He has written a number of stage plays including Niu Sila (co-written with Oscar Kightley) The Tutor, Magnolia Street, Central, Kia ora Khalid, The Motor Camp, King and Country, Kings of the Gym, Rita and Douglas, Central, where we once belonged (with Sia Figiel), Le Sud and Anzac Eve. Dave has won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New New Zealand Play three times. In 2015 his play Central won the SWANZ/Writer's Guild award for best play

Dave recently co-wrote a children's movie, Kiwi Christmas, which was released last summer. He is a columnist for the Dominion Post newspaper and was nominated as best opinion writer (humour and satire) in the 2018 Voyager Media Awards. He has also written a book, True Colours, about the 1996 New Zealand General Election