About Micheal Seirton

Beginning in the theatre at the Derby Playhouse, Michael Seirton went on to have an illustrious and exciting career in film as a set director and art director with his many screen credits including Agatha, cry freedom, and Gandhi. The art of creating mood background and crafting the context for the action is second nature to Michael Seirton so that despite Michaels novels unexpected twists and turns and strange paranormal happenings the attention to detail, characters' interior and landscape descriptions are so rich and vivid that they become completely believable.

After leaving school, he applied for a position as a set painter at the Derby Playhouse, and he got lucky because when he handed in his application letter, it happened to coincide with their Scenic artist leaving. His natural creativity and talent meant he was soon spotted for greater things, moving to the Castle Theatre Farnham and then finally working at the National Theatre and then moving into film, culminating in the dream of working in Hollywood.

The film set director and later art director actually prepared Michael for being an author later in life.

Quote from Michael during an interview with Neatherseale magazine

I'd always wanted to write a book but never thought I could I think a lot of it is to do with the job that I have had because when you get a film script you get given Joe Bloggs apartment who's Joe Bloggs where does he come from who is he related to where's where's he been what he done in his life so you've got to start making stories up for these people about where they come from who they are married to who their aunt and uncle and all that so you can get the right elements into the set and make it credible for the character I think that's what's changed me doing this

Michael Seirten won an Oscar for Gandhi as set director and a nomination for Reds. after his many screen credits he turned to writing, his first two novels were the Boy in the Red boat and the portrayal of guy Maddox

Photo by John Vere Brown