Michael Scott Dublin Biography
MICHAEL is a freelance writer, composer, theatre director & international producer.
Receiving his training in Europe. He was Theatre Director @ Project, Program Director Dublin Theatre Festival, Director @ Tivoli Theatre & RHA Downstairs. Currently Director @ City Theatre Dublin.
Professionally writing plays and music for theatre/dance since 1984, and commissioned by SIAMSA TIRE(National Fork Theatre), he created two original music theatre works. He has written a number of plays and theatre shows for young audiences. A full list can be found here.
For IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE he has composed several original musical works : In 2020/1 the score for the dance film “In The Vicinity Of The Sun” & the opening music for “Dancer From the Dance Festival”& the score for two works in it.
For Yeats150 he composed SONGS FROM THE SWANS AT COOLE for Tenor & Soprano which played at major regional venues in Ireland, and Expo Milan.
In 2020, he composed CAOINEADH/LAMENTATIONS under an Arc Council Covid Response Grant, the music was available free for 9 months (until June 16th 21), it will be released to purchase in 2022. This grant encouraged him to release 8 albums of new & archival music on all digital platforms.
His Original Play based on the book THE VALLEY OF THE SQUINTING WINDOWS by Brinsley MacNamara, returns toMullingar Centre for the Performing Arts and the Gaiety Theatre Dublin October 2024 for a limited run.
He is currently working on a a new work with actress Norma Sheahan, and a song cycle based on the 36 Chamber Music Poems by James Joyce.
Michael
Scott
Producer, Director, Writer , Composer
I began woking in the theatre professionally when I was eleven years old, as a child actor in the Abbey Theatre Dublin . I studied Psychology and Philosophy at University College Dublin, and paid for my college education by working in the theatre as a stage manager and lighting designer,
My father was the lighting designer and chief technician at the Abbey Theatre - and so it was kind of inevitable that I would end up working in the Arts.
I wrote and directed a number of productions in college, some of which moved to major professional theatres in Dublin with great success. The Open space LG1 theater in college, was central to my theatre making and development and I configured it in every way possible. I received a bursary from the Arts Council in Ireland to study international theatre in France and this greatly developed my understanding of the possibilities theatre.
In addition to directing, I began to write plays and had been writing music since I was sixteen,. I have trained in dance in France taking classes in return for designing lighting of the company..
The theatre is in my blood, and whenever I encounter a new field or area that interests me, I explore it to its roots.