| Personal Details | Born: | 1959 | | Based: | Manchester | Work Sought: Community Theatre, Youth Theatre, workshops with young people. | Theatrical Experience/Training Currently writer in residence at HMP YOI Lancaster Farms, Michael has written for and about young people a great deal. His work includes plays for stage and radio (winner of BBC new radio drama 2003), and short films. He has been commissioned by Bolton Octagon and Oldham Coliseum to write for their youth theatres and his publication, Write Up Your Street (Young Voice Publications) is a guide to using creative writing with young people. His full length play Beyond Omarska was short listed for both the Kings Cross Award and the Alfred Bradley Award and produced in London by Box of Tricks Theatre. You can find out more about his work at www.michaelcrowley.co.uk |