Work samples

  • Juvenile 2020 Bigotry- CRAYON FASHION

    Be it Gen X or Gen Z   --Today's juveniles are more internet-savvy with social behavior. In a Nut-shell a bigot is a person that thinks they are bigger plus better than others. Crayon Fashion is a dance studio made up of little girls from a performing-arts school.

  • Baltimore's Freddy Grey- "THOSE CUTE BOYS"

    Project 3: Baltimore's Freddy Grey- THOSE CUTE BOYS (2018) 

    When riot police attempted to control the violence at North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue due to the death of Freddy Grey, while fires and violence was happening all over the city. Just 3 blocks from North Avenue and Pennsylvania is a mostly white community called Bolton Hill that went untouched.

    This one particular house on Bolton Street has a roof-top porch where you can see the fires happening at the North & Penn Subway station. This particular house is also a house of prostitution known only by the Baltimore Elites. But some of the women in this story struggle with drugs and worst of all..."those cute boys." 

    A stage play showing four women and their different struggles.  But there is one women who has never heard the name Freddy Gray.
    Written and produced by Michael Leroy Harding

  • A Malcom X lesson- "NEGRO WATER"

             Project 1: A Malcom X lesson- NEGRO WATER  (1999)

    What was Michael Harding thinking when he wrote, produced and acted in stage play Negro Water. 

    Michael followed the leadership of the great Malcom X during the Sixties as a teenager. Malcolm taught the term Negro was a lie and not all Water should be swallowed. 

    As a pre-teen, Michael saw it normal to see his father drink vodka in the morning before work. 

    Most of all, his father never appeared drunk and always kept his job.When four little black girls were murdered in their church by a bomb-blast. This was the one time the father drove his truck drunk, causing the death of a white woman. During a time it was 'legal' to drink & drive. But a 1963 racist Prosecutor seeks a death penalty for this manslaughter.

  • My .22 cal. rifle-   "HIM" 

    Project 2: My .22 cal. rifle-   "HIM"  (2008)    

    At age 13 in 1966 my older sister allowed her boyfriend to beat her. When I found out what was happening, I loaded my .22 cal. rifle with bullets. As soon as I saw her boyfriend, I came close to him to shoot many shots. But before I could pull the trigger, he snatched the rifle and said go home and play.

    Somebody eventually told me some women feel domestic abuse is okay! Some women say it is okay because they love "Him".

    A single-mother shares why she allows her man to beat her and then discovers it's the same common reason why other women allow it... But one day she finds a peculiar way out.                                        Produced and performed by Michael Leroy Harding

About MICHAEL

In 1972 Michael Leroy Harding graduated from Baltimore’s Mervo High School, where he took the music of Isaac Hayes' SHAFT and recruited Students and Teachers to help create the school's first Black History assembly to a 60% all White school… more

" What Happened "

MICHAEL LEROY HARDING

Actor, Director & Producer

< Co-Writer >

REDNECK to REDBONE (2019)

FOUR DAYS OLD (2018) 

CUTE BOYS (2017)

SIBLINGS (2015)

TENSIONS (2013)

HATE (2012)

Him or HIM (2011)

MARRIAGE & BEER (2010)

NEGROWATERS (2008)

THE SIX OF US (2005)                                                                                        

 

                                      

  • What Happen? Sex Happened - CRAYON FASHION Ep. 2

    "Decades of Dance Theater, Sex Trafficking and Retribution." A story-line about a world famous Dance Theater Company, examining the lives of a saga of characters.

    Crayon Fashion is a dance studio made up of little girls from a performing-arts school.

    This story watches the family life of 7 little girls between the ages of 10-13 who are social media influencers/ bigots. Creating a story-line how these 7 little girls affect another 7-10 little girls and adults.                Starting with a stage play, the story has evolved into many, many more characters.

    Causing the stage play to become a film production to become a featured mini-series. 

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    After being in the Pacific War during WWll, Lloyd a proud black Marine returns home to Baltimore. Looking for work with other black truck drivers.

    When a driver's route was made available, Lloyd avoided being called 'Hey Boy' in a crowd of other black drivers. The white foreman showed no desire to remember the names of the black drivers. But Lloyd always wore a white-cap in the crowd, causing the foreman say: ''Hey You, in the white-cap"!

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PRODUCER: Crayon Fashion (music video)

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This story watches the family life of 7 little girls between the ages of 10-13 who are social media influencers/ bigots. Creating a story-line how these 7 little girls affect another 7-10 little girls and adults. Starting with a stage play, the story has evolved into many, many more characters.

Causing the stage play to become a studio film production with brand new episodes as a featured mini-series. 

                     

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    Little girl troubles at home is why she works her way to Ballet'.
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THE SIX OF US (1952)

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If the parent(s) are acting like children, that doesn't help their child's mental health.

The six of us started in 1952, but wasn't put on paper until 1999 and wasn't put on stage until 2005,  A long list of other stage plays and stories have been performed in 18 years, They all evolved into a crayon fashion...Crayon Fashion is an answer for mental health.

  • The Six of Us (1999)

    A video clip made to promote the six of us stage play 14 years ago.

     

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Them Fast Giris

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Fast Girls
Preteen girls becoming bullies at Dance rehearsals 

  • Mother calls them ''Fast Girls" - CRAYON FASHION Ep. 2
    Sexual sicknesses start at what age ?
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God never cared for me

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Episode one looking at mental heath. 

  • DANCERS' LIFE BACK STAGE - CRAYON FASHON Ep. 1

    Over-coming Troubles

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yellow teeth (under production)

This is raw filming footage for the another episode of Crayon Fashion, another version of our MEAN GIRLS/  pre-teenage dancer being cruel about other dancers.

Co-written, Produced and also performed by Michael Leroy Harding

  • Juvenile 2020 Bigotry- "CRAYON FASHION"

    Our version of MEAN GIRLS/ Crayon Fashion style Raw-footage filming pre-teenage dancer being cruel about other dancers.