John Crowley
John Crowley at the 2024Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1969-08-19)19 August 1969 (age 56) Cork, Ireland
Occupation	Director
Spouse	Fiona Weir

John Crowley (born 19 August 1969) is an Irish theatre and film director.^[1] He is best known for the filmsBrooklyn (2015) and his debut feature,Intermission (2003), for which he won anIrish Film and Television Award for Best Director. He is a brother of the designerBob Crowley.

Crowley earned a BA in English and Philosophy (1990) and an MA in Philosophy fromUniversity College Cork.^[2]

Crowley became involved in theatre as a student, seeing it as a stepping stone to directing film. He began directing plays inDublin in the early 1990s, reached London'sWest End by 1996 and eventually become an associate director at theDonmar Warehouse. In 2000, he directedCome and Go as part of theBeckett on Film series and made his feature debutIntermission (2003), a comedy drama set in Dublin, starringColin Farrell,Cillian Murphy andKelly Macdonald, based on a screenplay by playwrightMark O'Rowe.^[3]

In May 2005, Crowley, along withDanny Boyle, launched theUK 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."^[4]

In 2007, Crowley reteamed with O'Rowe for the thought-provokingBAFTA-winning dramaBoy 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 US the following year.^[3] It won him the Best Director (Fiction) award at the 2008British Academy Television Craft Awards.^[5]

Additionally, Crowley wasTony nominated for the hugely successful London and Broadway runs ofMartin McDonagh's playThe Pillowman in 2003 and 2005. He directedNeve Campbell and Cillian Murphy in the West End production ofLove Song in 2006-7, and in 2007 filmed a television version ofHarold Pinter'sCelebration starringMichael Gambon,Stephen Rea andColin Firth.^[3] In 2009 he directed the filmIs Anybody There?, set in 1980s seaside Britain, written byPeter Harness and starringMichael Caine as a grumpy ex-magician. In 2010, Crowley teamed once again with McDonagh forA Behanding in Spokane on Broadway.

In July 2016, it was announced that Crowley will direct thescreen adaptation ofDonna Tartt'sPulitzer Prize-winning novelThe Goldfinch forWarner Bros. andRatPac Entertainment, starringAnsel Elgort,Oakes Fegley,Aneurin Barnard andFinn Wolfhard.^[6]

In 2017 it was announced that he would be directing a film adaption ofBernard MacLaverty'sMidwinter Break.^[7]

• A Very Expensive Poison (2019) –The Old Vic – written byLucy Prebble.
• The Present (2016) on Broadway –Anton Chekhov'sPlatonov adaptation byAndrew Upton. StarringCate Blanchett,Richard Roxburgh,Toby Schmitz,Jacqueline McKenzie.^[8]
• The Playboy of the Western World (2011) – The Old Vic – StarringRuth Negga,Niamh Cusack andRobert Sheehan.
• A Behanding in Spokane (2010) on Broadway.
• A Steady Rain (2009) on Broadway. StarringHugh Jackman andDaniel Craig
• Love Song (2006–07) – Written byJohn Kolvenbach –New Ambassadors Theatre (West End), London. This production, which was the UK premiere, starredNeve Campbell &Cillian Murphy.
• The Pillowman (2005) – International tour.
• The Pillowman (2003–04) –Royal National Theatre.
• On An Average Day (2002) – theComedy Theatre (West End), London. It starredWoody Harrelson &Kyle MacLachlan.
• Tales from Hollywood (2001) – Donmar Warehouse, London.
• Juno and the Paycock (2000) –Gramercy Theatre, New York.
• The Turn of the Screw (2000) –Welsh National Opera.
• Juno and the Paycock (1999) – Donmar Warehouse, London.
• Macbeth (1999) – UK tour.
• Into the Woods (1998–99) – Donmar Warehouse, London.
• How I Learned to Drive (1998) at the Donmar Warehouse, London (UK premiere).
• An Irish Trilogy, akaShadows (1998–99) –Royal Shakespeare Company.
• The Maids (1997) – UK tour.
• Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (1996) –Royal National Theatre.
• Double Helix (1996) – Dublin Theatre Festival/ Peacock Theatre, Dublin.
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (1995) –Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• The Crucible (1995) – Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• True Lines (1994) – Dublin Theatre Festival/ Bush Theatre, London
• One for the Road (1994) –Gate Theatre, Dublin.
• The Master Builder (1993–94) –Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh/Riverside Studios, London. Co-directed withBrian Cox.
• The Match Seller Girl – Theatre Project Tokyo, Japan.
• Asylum! Asylum! – Peacock Theatre, Dublin.
• John Hughdy-Tom John –Druid Theatre Company.
• Phaedra – Gate Theatre, Dublin.

• Come and Go (2000) (Short film)
• Intermission (2003)
• Boy A (2007)
• Is Anybody There? (2009)
• Closed Circuit (2013)
• Brooklyn (2015)
• The Goldfinch (2019)
• We Live in Time (2024)

• John Crowley atIMDb

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• Irish film directors
• Irish theatre directors
• 1969 births
• Mass media people from Cork (city)
• Alumni of University College Cork
• Irish television directors

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