Michael  Scott Dublin

B I O

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

He created the Theatre Space a the  RHA Downstairs and brought live performances back the Ambassador Theatre Dublin .

IN 1999 he reopened the SFX Centrein Dublin as  SFX CITY THEATRE  a multi purpose space for people to make and dream  until it became a block of flats.

 Currently he is  Artistic Director  City Theatre Dublin, which tours nationally and internationally 

Professionally writing plays and music for theatre/dance since 1984, and commissioned by SIAMSA TIRE, he created two original music theatre works for them . He has written a number of plays and theatre shows for young and community performers and audiences.. He is currently under commission from Mullingar Centre for the Performing Arts to create a stage adaptation of the Anne Girffin's international bestselling novel WHEN ALL IS SAID and is workshopping a new versions of THE THREE SISTERS.

A full list of original theatre works 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 the festival.  Currently he is composing a new setting of THE SONG OF AMERGIN (funded by as 2021 Arts Council Agility Award) and researching and writing an original song cycle based on “Chamber Music” by James Joyce, 

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. 

A full list of original music composition  can be found   here.