Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright, based in Toronto. His work has been produced extensively across Canada and the United States, and around the world. His most recent full length drama, Canadian Rajah, enjoyed a sold-out run in Toronto in 2019 and was remounted in 2020 for both stage and radio podcast. It will have a Malaysian tour in 2024, and has been published by Scirocco Drama. 

Although the pandemic caused the cancellation of a few productions, Dave used the time to complete a new play, Hope is a Bird, which is being presented at the Waterworks Festival in Charlottesville VA in May-June 2024. It tells the story of the legendary Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the discovery by two birders that the species may not, in fact, be extinct.

In partnership with playwright Beverley Cooper, Dave also completed an audiobook version of the Lucy Maud Montgomery classic Emily of New Moon, which stars Megan Follows and is available via Audible. A stage version of Emily has been commissioned. Dave is also working on a commission to adapt Farley Mowat's WW II memoir And No Birds Sang. 

In recent years, Dave has turned his attention to the short play format and his ten-minute works have been produced extensively in the US and around the world, most recently at the INK Festival in the UK. Dave is curator of the ten-minute play festivals in Port Hope and Cobourg, Ontario.

For a complete listing of Dave's plays - both full length and shorter - please visit his website at www.davecarley.com