Currently a writer in residence at a young offenders institution 


michael@crowley6339.freeserve.co.uk

 

Stage Plays

A Warning Againsit Idle Gossip (2011) Trickster Theatre

 

 

"Provocative, powerful, moving, historical drama"  5 Stars. Remotegoat

"Gripping story convincingly told."  On Stage in Liverpool.

Read reviews here and here

Top Bunk (2008)

For Oldham Coliseum's Young acting lab at Oldham Coliseum Studio Theatre

Community play commissioned by Bolton Octagon's Activ8. Part of the fortieth anniversary celebrations of the Octagon, produced at Bolton Girls and Lads Club in November 2007.  

Beyond Omarska (2006)

        beyond omarska     

Read The Stage review here

Available through New Theatre Publications

 

Trapped (2006)

young people''s theatre             

Hard Act Theatre. For 24:7 Theatre Festival Manchester then nine date North West Tour May 2007 including: schools; youth custody; youth clubs; Oldham Coliseum Studio; Lancaster Dukes DT3 and Blue Box Theatre Chorlton. Dir. Chris Bridgman. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too Careful (March 2006)


For Actv8 (Bolton Octagon Youth Theatre) Dir. Jodie Lamb. A play for children. Bill Naughton Studio Bolton Octagon.

 

The Man They Couldn't Hang (2006)

Published by Waterside Press, click here for synopsis and to purchase.  

(Winner of BBC's Stronger Than Fiction award 2004) Received script in hand performance at Oldham Coliseum, July 06. Dir. Stefan Escreet.   


Raver  (2005)

Action Transport Youth Theatre. Whitby Hall Studio August 2005.  A short play for children devised with children and director Guy Christenson.

Weapons of Forgiveness
(2004)

For Action Transport Theatre: a short play and related monolgues devised with young actors and dir. Guy Christainnson; for three Liverpool schools and Unity Theatre, Liverpool.  

Inside Out (2001)

Hard Act Theatre Co. Didsbury Studio Theatre, Manchester University. "A small masterpiece", Manchester Evening News.

Lucky Bastards  (1998)

Salford Open Theatre at University Salford and at Romily Forum Theatre Stockport.

 

Radio

The Immaculate Conception for BBC Radio (2003) Producer Melanie Harris. Winner of BBC Northern Exposure competition The Spin for short radio drama April 2003. 

A Principal at Stake (2005) For Unity Radio with No Attitude (Gay and Lesbian young people's group Trafford) funded by Trafford Youth Service 

 Film

short films crowley

Losing It
  (2007) for Lime Arts. A thirty minute film drama and resource book for Manchester schools (Key Stage 4) on young people and alcohol. Dir. Mark Haig.

The Amazing Doctor Sober (2008) A thirty minute film drama for schools. Premiere October 29th Printworks Manchester.

 

 

Runaway Home (2005) and Loose Change (2004) for Action Transport and Handstand Productions

Videotivilo Film Festival, Tampere, Finland and Yorkshire Youth Film Festival, Northallerton. 

Publication

Write Up Your Street (Tools to use with young people to create fiction) 

Published by Young Voice ISBN 978-1-903456-27-9

Poetry

An Elastic Sky (Flax publications anthology) Acumen, Bad Language, Envoi, Fin, Borderlines, The Affectionate Punch, Iota, Never Bury Poetry, North West Labour History Society Bulletin and performed at readings.