David Stevenson and Andy Halmay

David Stevenson & Andy Halmay

David Stevenson and Andy Halmay are the oddest writing couple. They don’t even look like writers. But since they have both had acting careers, they could put on an act to look like writers, if they ever figure out what writers should look like. David is black, born in Trinidad, 6’3” and slender which makes him look even taller. Andy says he used to be 5’9” but senior citizenship has shrunk him a couple of inches. He also has Canadian and U.S. citizenship but was born in Romania.

Andy has two sons who are older than David but when David and Andy work together, they become a couple of enthusiastic teenagers who constantly find themselves in excited agreement, leading to high-fives and outbursts of loud laughter.

David has worked as an actor, dancer, singer, musician, martial artist, stunt man and stunt coordinator. Andy did that fifty years ago but he never got into stunts. As a pre-teenager he once fell out of a tall tree he was climbing and then he fell off a horse he was riding. That cured him of pursuing physical adventures. “Twice bitten, thrice shy,“ he coins a phrase.

Together David and Andy present a resume that sprinkles dozens of celebrity names with whom they’ve worked. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nielsen, John Huston, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Arthur Hiller, Bob Clark, Carl Perkins, Samuel Jackson, William Shatner, Lou Gossett, Jr., James Garner, Chris Rock, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Halle Berry, John Goodman, David Caradine, Hugh Jackman, etc.

David studied psychology and managing aggressive behaviour which often has him working with young offenders. Andy usually works on three projects at the same time. He has sold TV scripts all the way back to the pioneer days of live Television and spent twenty years on Madison Avenue winning six awards for creative excellence in commercials, documentaries and sponsored films.

In the summer and fall of 2006 Andy spent four weeks in Mumbai and Hyderabad, India, to scout locations and studios and to meet with Bollywood producers for some co-productions of film projects that he and David are developing. Their first collaboration, Dangerous Days for Dragon Dancer Vigilantes, as a book and film, may get so many sequels it may be thought of as a series.