Michael Scott – Writer /Director/Composer

MICHAEL SCOTT is an independent international theatre director and producer and composer .

He received his theatre training in Europe and has been Theatre Director of the Project Arts Centre, Programme Director of Dublin Theatre Festival, Director of the Tivoli Theatre Dublin and RHA Downstairs. Currently Artistic Director of the City Theatre Dublin, his productions have been seen in Ireland, England, Germany, USA, Iceland, Wales, Scotland and France.

His own original play DANCING AT THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE starring Mary McEvoy played in the actual “Ballroom of Romance” in Glenfarne and at the Errigal Festival.

He directed and produced LOVE LETTERS with David Soul and Jerry Hall at the Gaiety Theatre and Tivoli Theatres in Dublin.

Theatre in Ireland and New York productions include :

John B Keane’s The Matchmaker (Dublin, Edinburgh and New York nominated for an “Outer Circle Critics award off-Broadway)

Sisters by Declan Hasset with tony Award Winner Anna Manahan who was nominated for a Best Actress award for her performance.

Other work includes; The Vagina Monologues, The Field (John B. Keane), The Cuchulain Cycle (W.B.Yeats), The Snowman, Shirley Valentine, Mysteries 2000 and Cecelia Ahern’s Mrs. Whippy for City Theatre Dublin. Bent, The Antigone, Trafford Tanzi, The Normal Heart at Project. Private Dick (Druid). Ella (Iceland), Thomas Kilroy’s Ghosts at the Abbey. The Woman In Black at the Olympia Theatre Dublin.

As Author and Director:

Plays and adaptations include: -

With Christopher Nolan Torchlight And Laser Beams for the Dublin and Edinburgh Theatre Festivals.

Dracula (RHA & Tivoli),

Brendan Behans' The Hostage (An Giall) with Niall Tobin,

Fragments Of Isabella with Gabrielle Reidy for stage and film.

Those Three Days (Pro-Cathedral Dublin & Divis-Cathedral-Belfast) with Stephen Vernon,

The Agamemnon (Red Kettle),

The Yellow Man (with Pauline Bewick).

With Eurovision winner Shay Healy, he has written ten children’s shows.

His play ONE won the “Best New Writing Award” at the International Gay Theatre Festival in Dublin and was nominated for the “Intercultural Dialogue award”

For Siamsa Tire (The National Folk Theatre) he wrote Songs Of Leaving and Tobar Na Scealta/The Well of Stories

For Duchas Folk Theatre (Trim) Songs By The River.

His reinvestigations of the works of W.B.Yeats are celebrated, his production of The Cuchulain Cycle is acclaimed in Dublin and London.

His has two chamber operas based on plays by W.B Yeats Purgatory and The Dreaming of the Bones.

To celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the Birth of W.B Yeats he premiered a song cycle of based on his poetry SONGS FROM THE SWANS AT COOLE at the Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire, it also played at Expo in Milan in October.

His most recent production an original play based on the book THE VALLEY OF THE SQUINTING WINDOWS by Brinsley MacNamara was an enormous success totally selling out before it even opened .

Currently he is writing a song cycle based on the poems “Chamber Music” by James Joyce for 2021 and stage version of THE DEAD by James Joyce for a Theatre in London (2021).