Michael McMillan
Michael McMillan, Arts.D. is a London based writer, playwright, artist, curator and /scholar.
Recent plays include: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan, set in Trenchtown, Jamaica (2013), and Waiting for myself to appear, a performance piece (2019), now a triptych film installation at the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum). His much praised, The Front Room has been iterated in the Netherlands, Curacao, Johannesburg, Arles, part of Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now (Tate Britain 2021-22, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2022-23), and now permanently at the Museum of the Home. It also inspired the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room (2007), was and the basis of his book, The Front Room: Diaspora migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Lund Humphries 2023).
Other work includes: Sonic Vibrations: Sound systems, lovers rock and dub for Writers Mosaic, Walking in the Wake, a short film (Estuary Festival 2021), I Miss My Mum’s Cookin’, and a multi-media installation How Cotton Became King Kew Gardens, 2025.
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 VIAD (University of Johannesburg).
