Anthony Crowley

Anthony Crowley (born on 3 July 1965) is an Australian playwright, composer, director, designer, and educator. Notable musical theatre works include Vincent: An A’Capella Opera, Supernature, The Villain of Flowers, The Journey Girl, Motor Mouth Loves Suck Face. He is also known for his non-musical plays such as Pretty White Lies and the Velveteen Undertow and The Frail Man.

Early life and education

Crowley was born in Rosanna, a suburb of Melbourne, in 1965. He later moved to Traralgon, where he completed his secondary education in 1983. He returned to Melbourne to study Graphic Design at Swinburne University, graduating with a BA in 1987. During this time, he discovered theatre at St Martins Youth Art Centre.

Career

Design

After graduating, Crowley briefly worked as an Art Director at Clemenger Advertising before shifting his focus to theatre and performing arts.

Theatre

Crowley's theatre career includes performing in plays like Godspell and writing musicals such as Vincent: An A’Capella Opera, which premiered at St Martins’s Theatre in 1990. He collaborated with Luke Devenish on several musicals, including Supernature and The Villain of Flowers. The Journey Girl, adapted from letters by his sister Cath Crowley, premiered in 1998.

Crowley also worked with NIDA, creating musicals like Nathanial Storm and Dreaming The Pink Dingo. He initiated The Wild Blue Project in 2002 and wrote the play The Frail Man, which won several awards. Between 2005 and 2007, he served as Artistic Director at St Martin's Youth Arts Centre, creating productions like The Wild Blue and Motor-mouth and Suck-face.

From 2009 to 2011, Crowley collaborated on musicals like Carnival Joe and RISE. In 2011, he became the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Short + Sweet Playwriting Festival. In 2013, he collaborated with his daughter Ella on the cabaret One Tacky Tree, and in 2016, he wrote and starred in the play Redemption.

Education

Crowley has initiated several community and youth theatre projects, including Partners in Rhyme. He has worked as a singing tutor and lecturer at Federation University and the Victorian College of the Arts, where he directed productions like Tribe and Superfreaks.

Personal life

Crowley met Catherine Fewster while starring in Godspell. They married in 1995 and have three children.

Awards and recognitions

• Official Selection, VCE Theatre Studies Playlist, 2018, Motor-mouth Loves Suck-face; An Apocalyptic Musical. • Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Best Music Theatre Script, 2008, The Wild Blue. • Winner of the 2006 Pratt Prize for Musical Theatre. • Winner of the 2005 Sumner Locke Elliot, New Dramatists Prize, New York Residency. • Winner of the 2004 R.E. Ross Trust Award [Shadow Passion]. • Winner of the 2004 Malcolm Robertson Prize for Drama [The Frail Man]. • Winner of the 2002 Wal Cherry Play Of The Year Award [The Frail Man]. • Awarded a Young Artist Scholarship, Opera Australia, 1993. • Awarded an Australian Musical Theatre Foundation Scholarship, 1992. • Winner of the 1998 GRAA Award for Best Musical Direction.

References

References

https://federation.edu.au/arts-academy/about-us/people/staff/anthony-crowley

https://antcrowleycreates.com/about-ant-crowley

https://nypost.com/2011/06/15/tammy-faye-born-again-again/

https://www.playbill.com/article/kristin-chenoweth-and-hunter-foster-took-part-in-recent-reading-of-new- tammy-faye-bakker-musical-com-180097

External links

www.antcrowleycreates.com

https://federation.edu.au/arts-academy/about-us/people/staff/anthony-crowley

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