Boy A

John Crowley (born 1969) is an Irish television, theatre and film director. He is perhaps best known for his feature film debut Intermission (2003). Crowley earned a B.A. in philosophy from University College Cork.

Career

Crowley became involved in theatre as a student, seeing it as a stepping stone to directing film. He began directing plays in Dublin in the early 90s, reached London’s West End by 1996 and eventually become an associate director at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2000, he directed Come and Go as part of the Beckett on Film series and made his feature debut Intermission (2003) a comedy drama set in Dublin, starring Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Kelly MacDonald, based on a screenplay by playwright Mark O’Rowe.

In May 2005 Crowley, along with Danny Boyle, launched the UK Film Council Development Fund’s “25 Words or Less: Director’s Cut” scheme to develop a feature film project, stating that he wanted particularly to “create a contemporary ‘rebirth’ or transformation story about a man or woman who begins as someone that spreads coldness.”In 2007, he reteamed with O’Rowe for the thought-provoking BAFTA-winning drama Boy A, about a young man’s return to civilian life after imprisonment for a brutal childhood killing, which was made for British television but was released theatrically in the U.S. the following year.

Additionally, Crowley was Tony nominated for the hugely successful London and Broadway runs of Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman in 2003 and 2005. He directed Neve Campbell and Cillian Murphy in the West End production of Love Song in 2006-7, and in 2007 filmed a television version of Harold Pinter’s Celebration starring Michael Gambon, Stephen Rea and Colin Firth. In 2009 he released another film Is Anybody There? set in 1980s seaside Britain, written by Peter Harness and starring Michael Caine as a grumpy ex-magician. In 2010, Crowley teamed once again with McDonagh for A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway. —Wikipedia