He’s a published novelist, and stage, opera and broadcast writer of screenplays, stage-plays, television series for children and parents, television drama series, language and drama textbooks, travel articles, opera librettos, children’s story animations, and cookbooks. He’s written, directed and produced short films, fictional and documentary. He’s an opera singer with New Zealand Opera. He’s travelled in the Pacific and recorded indigenous music on a Winston Churchill Fellowship. He trains male voice choirs…

Because no one told him he couldn't.