About

Photo by Chris Boland of Distant Cloud Photography

Michelle Golder has written, directed, edited and produced work for the stage, radio and screen.

As Producer:

Dickens on Slavery (Dir Jonathan Howard, Short film for Cambridge Literary Festival, also co-writer with Anni Domingo, 2020)

The 7th Generation on Cambridge 105 Radio (monthly magazine on local environmental issues, also podcasted, 2019-2021)

Back to the Garden? (Also Writer/Dir,. Short film for Transition Cambridge Empty Common Community Garden, 2019)

Can Smartphones Grow on Trees? (Dir Jonathan Howard, Short film for Disruptive Innovation Festival, 2016)

Ren – The Girl with the Mark (Co-producer for Mythica Entertainment, 2015, Winner of 14 awards including: Best Web Series – Film Quest (USA); Grand Jury Award – Melbourne International Web Fest (Australia); Best Series – Gen Con Film Festival (USA); Grand Jury Award for Best Series – Bilbao Web Fest (Spain))

The Trouble with Dot and Harry (Co-producer with Dir Gary Walkow, Existential Films, Official Selection Slamdance Festival 2015. Now Caffiend.)

As Writer:

Stage Plays:

• Hayton on Homicide, which played to sell out audiences in Cambridge (ADC Theatre & Haslingfield Little Theatre) and London (Tristan Bates) before a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival;
• Sexual Ironing   (Director Holly Race; ADC Theatre, Cambridge and Etcetera Theatre, Camden);
• Absurdities/Bed (co-written with Paul Richards, director Holly Race;  Corpus Playroom, Cambridge and Ambassador Hotel, Brighton);
• That Didn’t Work Either (Director Trish Etheridge; part of Singles Night, Brentwood Theatre, Essex).

Radio:

• Options, 7 minute romantic comedy about a parking machine,  produced by the BBC as part of Menagerie Theatre Company’s Echoes From The East, nominated  for a Sony Radio Academy award 2011;
• Hills Road, 10 part comedy soap (co-writer and director, 209Radio).
• Fentasia, 10 part comedy soap (co-writer, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire)

Short films:

• Can’t Handle It (CIFA, Malcolm Greenhill), shown at the Cambridge Film Festival 2010;
• Are You Lonesome Tonight (Internet project, Mad & Bad Films, Kate Madison);
• This is Susan (Actors at Work, for the 2011 Reed short film competition, Kate Madison).
• Festival of ‘Bruce’ (Actors at Work/Moulin-Exes, for the 2011 VMShorts competition. TiVO top ten selection).
• Rustlers (Actors at Work for the Reed Short Film Competition 2012).

Michelle placed 9th in the 2013 NYC Midnight international short scriptwriting competition.

Her microshort script “Surrender” was longlisted for the 50Kisses Competition in 2012.

Another short, “Birthday” was shortlisted for the London Screenwriters Festival 4 Days in August Competition 2011.

Feature length screenplay, My Dead Wife, was longlisted for the spring 2011 Bafta Rocliffe Forum.