Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan, Arts.D. is a London-based writer, playwright, artist/curator and educator of Vincentian Caribbean migrant heritage. His interdisciplinary practice draws on oral history, material culture and the archive to create stories using performance, music, film, sound and multi-media installation.

His plays include: The School Leaver (1978), Hard Time Pressure (1981), On Duty (Channel 4 drama /documentary 1994), Invisible (1993), Blood for Britain (BBC Radio 4 Drama 2001), Master Juba (2006), Brother to Brother (1996), and a new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan, set in Trenchtown, Jamaica (2013). His site-responsive performance piece, Waiting for myself is the basis of a triptych film installation, produced in collaboration with Dubmorpholoy, on public display at the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum)

His curatorial practice includes the The West Indian Front Room, which was the Geffrye Museum’s most successful exhibition (2005-06). It has been iterated in the Netherlands, Curacao, Johannesburg, and Arles, and is permanently at the Museum of the Home.

McMillan has the first Arts Doctorate from Middlesex University (2010), is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion (UAL), Senior Research Associate with the Visual Identities in Art & Design Centre VIAD (University of Johannesburg).