A member of the Australian Writer Guild for over 30 years, Truman's television credits include Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, Packed to the Rafters, The Strip, Sea Patrol, Last Man Standing, The Alice, Stingers (nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 118), McLeod's Daughters, Neighbours (for which he wrote 148 episodes, and was also nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 4155), Home and Away as Sam Barlow in 1988, E Street, A Country Practice, Fat Tony & Co., Winter, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries. He also wrote for Underbelly: Razor (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), Underbelly: Badness, and Underbelly: Squizzy. In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for Underbelly: Badness.
