Writer · Composer · Witness

Matt
O'Crowley

Three novels. An album. A musical. A fable. A little book of revelations.

All written in six months. While waiting to give a statement.
Some people cope with adversity by going for a walk. This is not that.

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✦   The Output — Six Months   ✦

What happens when the system fails you?

Apparently, this. All of it. In six months. While the police lost the paperwork.

3
Novels
written
17
Original
tracks
1
Full-length
musical
1
Illustrated
fable
1
Little book of
revelations
200
Police calls.
0 investigations.

The last column is not a creative achievement. It is the reason for all the others.

Fiction & Non-Fiction

The Books

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Four works. Three novels, a fable, and a small book of hard-won wisdom.

Each one written in the margins of a legal case that the authorities would prefer not to discuss. Funny how that works.

The Book of Life cover
The Book of Life
Novel
There are two sides to every life. Only one you're allowed to see.
The Archive cover
The Archive
Novel
Some records were never meant to be found.
Disjointed cover
Disjointed
Novel — System Error
The system failed. Everything else followed.
The Little Book of Revelations cover
The Little Book of Revelations
Non-Fiction
Small truths for ordinary lives.
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The ChiSsalo
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Illustrated fable
The ChiSsalo
Illustrated Fable
A children's story. For adults who forgot how to be children.

Original Music

The Album

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Seventeen tracks. Written, composed, and recorded in the same six months.

Not a concept album. Not deliberately. And yet. Click any track to play.

Matt O'Crowley
Original Compositions
17
Tracks
  • 01 The Last Time
  • 02 Bring the Dead to Life (Europe Mix)
  • 03 Asteroth the Puppy
  • 04 Calm Down Belzibub
  • 05 Both Ways Both Sides
  • 06 My Best Friend's Vagina
  • 07 Gracias for Leaving
  • 08 Pill for Joy (Remix)
  • 09 Three Stripes
  • 10 Resuscitate (Extended Mix)
  • 11 Dio Gracias
  • 12 Jesus Fought the Devil with a Leaf
  • 13 G-Spot
  • 14 Ray of Sunshine
  • 15 Shower Head
  • 16 Wake Into a Party
  • 17 Lonely Gregor

Musical Theatre

Wrong Roof

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A full-length theological comedy. In development.

God cancelled the Apocalypse. Wrong address. Missed the slot. Corporate unpreparedness. Also written in the six months. Obviously.

Official Trailer — Wrong Roof: The Musical

Synopsis

Wrong Roof

"God cancelled the Apocalypse. Wrong address. Missed the slot. Corporate unpreparedness."

Heaven's end-of-world project hits a catastrophic administrative error — the Armageddon is triggered at the wrong address, missing the scheduled slot entirely. In the chaos that follows, something extraordinary happens: the Catholics were right. The Muslims were right. Everyone was right. Every faith, every tradition, every quiet believer who ever wondered — all of them, simultaneously, correct.


And then the boss changes his mind. Spins the wheel a little bit more.

Format
Full-length musical
Genre
Theological comedy / Parody
Themes
Faith, bureaucracy, the absurdity of certainty, second chances
Composer / Book
Matt O'Crowley
Written
During six months of institutional inaction. As one does.
In Development

The Record

The Case

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The creative work above did not emerge from nowhere. It emerged from this.

200 calls to the police. 0 investigations. The work above is what you do instead of waiting.

policeshame.com

Why Police Shame?

200 calls. 0 investigations. The documented record of institutional failure.

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A note on context

Every novel, every track, every scene of Wrong Roof, every small revelation in the little book — all of it was written while a serious criminal case sat uninvestigated. The creative output is not a response to the injustice. It is what happened in the space where justice should have been. Make of that what you will.