Conor Mitchell
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Conor Mitchell is an Irish composer and writer. His play, The Dummy Tree, was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 for their 2009 New Connections series.

He is currently working on a new solo musical for Nigel Richards.

Conor has been a great supporter of Youth Music Theatre: UK
Youth Music Theatre: UK
Youth Music Theatre UK is the United Kingdom's biggest provider of music theatre projects for young people. It is one of nine recognised National Youth Music Organisations ....

 and has received several commissions from them including Missing Mel, Goblin Market and Eight.

He split first place in the Stephen Sondheim Society's Student Performer of the Year Competition for a song he wrote entitled What Kind of Life Is This, Masha?. He split the new song competition prize with Gwenyth Herbert's Lovely London Town.

Music theatre

  • Have a Nice Life
  • Goblin Market based on Christina Rossetti
    Christina Rossetti
    Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...

    's poem Goblin Market
    Goblin Market
    "Goblin Market" is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which features remarkably sexual imagery, was not meant for children. However, in public Rossetti often stated that the poem was intended for children, and went on to write...

  • WLTM
  • Missing Mel
  • The Young Pornographer's Wife
  • Matilde based on Guy de Maupassant
    Guy de Maupassant
    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....

    's story, "La Parure" (The Necklace).
  • Merry Christmas Betty Ford
  • The Dummy Tree For the National Theatre's Connections festival.

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