Mike Healey

Creative, accomplished lateral thinker, writer and professional artist, stage designer and director. Fine art practitioner; novelist and short-story writer; writer for TV, Film and Radio; Stage Design; Stage, TV and Radio direction/production.

Former Associate Director, Oxford Playhouse Company (Meadow Players); BBC TV and Granada TV writer, director and producer. Award-winning drama-documentary writer/director and drama Producer at BBC Scotland and BBC Manchester.

Former Academic (Cumbria Institute of the Arts and University of Humberside) with special interest in creativity. External Examiner (Media Production) at Edinburgh and Glasgow colleges of art.

Mike's creative work embraces stage plays, curating exhibitions, short films, art direction, magazine design, event management and creative workshops (writing/direction)

Independent Coursework Future Learn - Higgs boson Future Lear - Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Future Learn - Introduction to Forensic Science Future Learn - Good brain, bad brain Future Learn - Shakespeare's Hamlet, Oil Painting Academic Writing Critical Theory Creative Consultancy

• Honors and Awards , Sense of Place Royal Television Society Award - Best Regional Drama Series 1993 Twelve plays for television. Writers included Shelagh Delaney, Alan Bleasdale, Alan Garner, Janey Prager, and Beryl Bainbridge. Script Editor/Producer/Director credits.
• Fine Art, Literature, Theater, Film, Creative Writing, Philately (French North Africa), Jazz, Philip Glass and other contemporary music, Photography, Dance and Physical Theater (as Stage and lighting Designer)

Strawlitter Productions (UK)

Learn My Lines Productions, Liverpool (U.K)

Verity and her adventures in Japonica

Children's illustrated story book (5-7 years old) about a little girl determined to transform her topsy-turvy world and battle climate change

First of six books. Author.

Capacity to Love

Feature-length film about two vulnerable adults who meet at a crazy disco, fall in love and wish to marry - even though the care system in which they are trapped does everything in its power to thwart them. True story. Treatment and part script complete - looking for Production Company/Director

Script consultant for Holly Lovelady, Learn My Lines Productions, Liverpool.

The Angel Maker

Three-act stage play, set in a remote village in Hungary after WW1. When the men return from the trenches, the women of the village poison them, one by one. Based on a true story. Published but yet to be staged. 

Tea with Tutankhamun

Feature-length film about the discovery of Tutankamun's tomb. This is the real, behind the scenes account of what really happened, not least the bitter feuds between carter and the Egyptian authorities, innner domestic issues at the American House and rivalries between Carter and his American colleagues.

This is written in collaboration with Maria MacDonell. Ongoing

Author

Art Exhibitions

Exhibition of original Surreal art at The People's Gallery, Kendal Museum, Kendal, Cumbria - opening in October, 2023.

Artist

Topless

Stage play set on the open-to, upper deck of a double-decker London bus. Play by Miles Tredinnick. Opening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh in August 2023

Director