Plays
2007 - The Bachelor Prophecies (QTC Young Playwrights Award)
2008 - Smashed (Sunshine Beach State High School)
2009 - Lazarus Won’t Get Out of Bed (AS Theatre and Metro Arts)
2009 - Spirits in Barefeet (USQ Artsworx)
2010 - April’s Fool (Empire Theatre Projects)
2010 - Captain Pathos and his Army of Imaginary Friends (USQ Artsworx)
2010 - Furious Angels (Metro Arts)
2011 - Sex and Sensibility with Claire Christian (Empire Theatre Homegrown Projects)
2012 - Life etc. with Emily Burton and Kate Murphy (Empire Theatre Homegrown Projects)
2012 - Sleep, Rest and Repose (La Boite Scratch Program)
2012 - Revolt! (Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe)
2012 - Guilt and Africa (La Boite Scratch Program)
2012 - Carpenter’s Laugh (La Boite Scratch Program)
2013 - Boomtown (Queensland Music Festival)
2013 - Livid (Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe)
2013 - Orbit (Queensland Theatre Company and Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe)
2014 - The Voice in the Walls (Imaginary Theatre and Old Government House)
2014 - Sunburn (Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe)
2014 - The C Word with Claire Christian (Metro Arts)
2014 - The Landmine is Me with Claire Christian (Queensland Theatre Company)
2015 - Under This Sky (Queensland Music Festival)
2015 - Hedonism’s Second Album with Claire Christian (La Boite Indie)
2016 - St. Mary’s in Exile (Queensland Theatre Company)
2017 - The Power Within (Queensland Music Festival)
2018 - Define ‘Adult’ with Claire Christian (La Boite Young Actors Ensemble)
2018 - How to Be Happy the Play (Unproduced Queensland Theatre Company commission)
2019 - The Mount Isa Blast (Queensland Music Festival)
2019 - The Final Days of Bedlam (La Boite Young Artists Ensemble)
2020 - Wisdom (Queensland Theatre Company Scene Project)
2020 - Major Arcana (La Boite Theatre Development Program)
2021 - The Time is Now with Ari Palani and Aleea Monsoor (La Boite Theatre Company)
2022 - Beautiful Country (Unproduced La Boite Theatre Company)
2023 - 34 Scenes about the Weather (with 33 other writers) (Lunch Friends and Anywhere Theatre Festival)
2023 - Hands on Fire (St. Rita’s College)
2024 - The Good Dad (Queensland Premier’s Drama Award Finalist, Playlab Gather Project)
2024 - Whitlam, An Australian Fantasy (UniSQ)
2025 - Space Cowboy (QUT)
2026 - Persuasive Voices (Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe)
2026 - Icarus with Maxine Mellor, Maddie Nixon, Merlynn Tong (Queensland Theatre Company Scene Project)
2026 - Common Ground (Brisbane Grammar School)
Books
2015 - How to be Happy, Text Publishing
2019 - The Man in the Water, UQP Publishing
2023 - Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice with Sarah Peters, Routledge
Online
2024 - Current David Burton’s Substack
2023 - 2024 David Burton on ArtsHub
‘Unhappy Pairings: the death spiral of the arts in our universities’ for Griffith Online
Pieces for The Conversation