David Collison received the prestigious Harold Burris-Meyer Distinguished Career in Sound Design Award 2007 from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).

David joined Richard Pilbrow in the fledgling company, Theatre Projects, in 1959 and became managing director of the Theatre Projects group in 1985. During the 1970s and 1980s, as one of the world's foremost theatre sound designers (the first person to be credited with that title), he worked on more than seventy musicals. He was Sound Designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company and for the National Theatre Company. As part of the Theatre Projects consultancy team, he designed sound systems for the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Barbican Theatre and many other theatres and concert halls in the UK and abroad - inaugurating a number of technical innovations.

In 1988 he formed Adventure Projects to use his theatrical talents for the creation of themed visitor attractions. He has also written and directed numerous video films. David's book, Stage Sound was published in 1976 with a second edition in 1982. He is currently writing a new book on the history of sound in the theatre to be published in 2007.