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MICHAEL BARRY

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Personal Details

Work Sought:

Stage play list - available for reading and/or production.
Film and TV drama projects seeking commissions or co-production deals.

 Theatrical Experience/Training

Michael has several decades' experience in professional production, directing over 80 theatre productions; 200+ screen credits as broadcast TV writer/Programme Associate; and some 100 credits as corporate producer/director/writer.
He has published sell through videos (on Vinegrowing & Winemaking); constructed two substantial interactive viewdatabases for the Foreign Office; has a major BBC Radio classic dramatization credit ("Zuleika Dobson"); and two broadcast soap opera writing credits (STV's "Garnock Way").
He has produced, directed and scripted an 18 minute short film ("Old Mrs Chundle") of a Thomas Hardy short story; a karaoke video ("Vienna"), an award winning Super 8 short ("Image"), and some promos; adapted and directed "Tom Jones", "The Warden", "Love Letters" and other classics for the stage; directed many premieres of new theatre work (inc his own "Dead Woman's Ditch" – published as "Burning Passions"); and founded/ran regional touring group The Wessex Actors Company (1993-2006)
Current emphasis: development of feature thriller "The Palestrina Affair", marketing 6.5hr interactive 4 DVD set "The 2008 Nether Stowey May Festival and 10th Twinning Anniversary", several internet projects, book proposal seeking publisher ("Discovering Movies"), latest original play "The Balance of Mind" (also radio version), preparing plays for publication and representation by New Theatre Publications.
Working as Perceptive Creation and Somerset Screen Productions.

 

Plays
Published at NTP
 
Burning Passions FL  Musical Drama  full: 7m 4f, 1 boy + 3 other; w/doubling: 4m 2f, 1 boy
Love Letters FL  Play  full: 3m 2f; w/doubling 2m, 2f
Passion and the Revolutionary 1A  Drama  2m 1f
Tess of the D’Urbervilles FL  Drama  full: 7m 6F; w/doubling: 3m 4f
Tom Jones FL  Play  6m 6f or with doubling 3m 3f
Contact Details
Email Address:   michaelis@perceptivecreation.co.uk
Web Link 1: http://www.perceptivecreation.co.uk/
Web Link 2: http://www.perceptivecreation.co.uk/cvs/playlist.htm