Conor Mitchell is a musical dramatist from Co.Armagh, Ireland.

His musical plays include The Dummy Tree (NT Connections), The Young Pornographer’s Wife, The Musician, Merry Christmas Betty Ford, Diary of a Madman, Todd, Letters to an Absent Other and Mathilde.

Composer / Lyricist credits: Have a Nice Life (Best Score, New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2006), Missing Mel.

Composer credits include: Goblin Market, Pesach, the award winning film opera Pretty Face and over 40 other theatre scores.

He has written for the Ulster Youth Orchestra, been writer on attachment to the National Theatre Studio, writer in residence at LAMDA, music advisor to Youth Music Theatre UK and winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship for musical theatre composition. He is under commission from Ransom Theatre Company, Library Theatre Manchester, LAMDA, University of Gotenberg, Nice People Theatre Company Philadelphia and Cahoots NI at present. He is also writing a one man show, Cycle of Trifles for Nigel Richards. He is 31.

Previous projects with YMT:

• Over the Edge (2004) – Musical Director
• Goblin Market (2005) – Musical Director
• Let it Snow Again – Musical Director
• Missing Mel (2006 and 2008) – Musical Director
• Dance! (2007) – Musical Director
• Young Writers and Composers (2009) – Assistant Musical Director