
Michael Colgan
Department: Acting
Biography
Michael Colgan (born 1972-1973) as Michael Hughes in Keady, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish actor, novelist and academic, currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London Colgan was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and did his undergraduate studies in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then completed a MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, followed by a PhD at London Metropolitan University. He also studied at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has lived in London.
Known For

This Is Not a Love Song
2002

Heart of Lightness
2014

Soundproof
2006

Sunday
2002

Song of Songs
2005

Good Vibrations
2012

Sinners
2002

The Year London Blew Up
2005

Occupation
2009

Lennon Naked
2010

Urchin
2025

You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
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Raw
2008

New Tricks
2004

The Fall
2013

Great Expectations
2011

The Thick of It
2005

Surviving Disaster
2006

Chernobyl
2019

Midsomer Murders
1997

The Crown
2016

Say Nothing
2024

The Thick of It
2005