Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright. His plays for stage and radio have had over 500 productions across Canada, the United States, and in many other countries around the world. His works include Writing with our Feet (nominated for the Governor General's Award), The Last Liberal, The Edible Woman and, most recently, Twelve Hours, and Canadian Rajah. He is completing work on a new drama, Hope is a Bird, as well as an adaptation of Farley Mowat's war memoir And No Birds Sang (premiering in August 2026 at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre). He is also working with playwright Beverley Cooper on a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery classic, Emily of New Moon.

Many of Dave's plays can be ordered directly online from his publisher, Scirocco Drama. They include Canadian Rajah, Twelve Hours, The Last Liberal and Three Plays (Writing with our Feet; Midnight Madness; and Into).