David Widdicombe
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David Widdicombe (b. in Toronto) is a Canadian filmmaker and playwright. His most successful work is Santa Baby (2006), which he directed and wrote.
Santa Baby won the Best Screenplay Award at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. and BEST COMEDY FILM at the 2006 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
He is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre.
Widdicombe's stage plays include The River Lady (Winner of the National Playwrighting Competition), Dinosaur Dreams, Secret of the Lost Empire, Swamp Baby & Other Tales, and Wake (named one of the top ten plays at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2001, his play Science Fiction won the Aurora Award.
He has been Playwright-in-Residence at Toronto's Factory Theatre. In 1995 playwright George F. Walker and the Arts Foundation of Toronto awarded him the Toronto Arts Protege Award for Drama.
Widdicombe's radio dramas include Last of the Great Rock Legends, The Pet, Monster in the Sewer, and Machines and Men.
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