Kerry Crabbe

KERRY CRABBE                                                                                        

Kerry has worked extensively as a writer and producer with the BBC, finding and developing projects for the Drama Department including the BAFTA award-winning TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. He has also worked at Granada with Derek Granger on film projects including POOR GIRL directed by Michael Apted and THE FERRYMAN directed by John Irvin.  Other television work includes an original play, THE LAST ROMANTIC, starring Michael Jayston and Andre Morrell and the television adaptation of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF starring Laurence Olivier and Natalie Wood.

Kerry’s adaptation of Harold Pinter’s THE DWARFS was screened on BBC 4 in October of 2002, as well as being performed at The Tricycle Theatre.

FILMS

Screenplay for MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (Memorial Films & EMI) starring Julie Christie.

Screenplay for TRICK OF THE LIGHT which he also directed, a short film which went on release with LOCAL HERO.

Screenplay for RUNAROUND, directed by Mamoun Hassan, starring Gabrielle Lloyd.

Screenplay for INHERITANCE (Oscar Lewenstein Productions).

Screenplay for THE WORKS (Channel Four) directed by Stephen Bayley.

Screenplay for MAGIC BAG, a Swedish-Norwegian co-production, starring Jon Skolman.

Worked on screenplay for STEAMING directed by Joseph Losey.

THE PLAYBOYS (co-written with Shane Connaughton).  This feature, for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, opened to critical acclaim in both the US and the UK.

HALCYON DAYS (co-written with Patrick Dewolf) for Parasol Pictures

ROCKING THE BOAT a screenplay for the BBC.

KEEP TALKING, commissioned by Working Title, co-written with Shane Connaughton,

THEATRE

Extensive work as a writer and director including West End and National Theatre productions: ROUGH MAGIC, nominated Most Promising Playwright, London Evening Standard Awards.

FLANN O'BRIEN'S HARD LIFE which broke all box-office records at the Tricycle Theatre, London.

RADIO

HIROSHIMA: LISTENING TO INCENSE was broadcast in August 1990 on BBC Radio 4.

Kerry also works as a songwriter, most notably for Cleo Laine and as a visiting lecturer at the National Film and Television School.

Kerry died on 31 January 2024 in Suffolk, England.