Cormac Myles is an award-winning theatre director and playwright based in Glasgow, creating socially engaged work in a variety of contexts.

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Cormac Myles (he/him) is an award-winning theatre director and playwright based in Glasgow. His work is often socially engaged and exists in a variety of contexts. His credits include:

SEMI-SKIMMED (Scottish Tour); The Ballad Of Sonia The Skunk (Airdrie Arts Centre); Under The Skin (63 Bath Street); Tit For Tat (Traverse Theatre); Heroic Act (Reconnect Regal Bathgate); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Airdrie Arts Centre); WASPS (A Play, A Pie, A Pint, Traverse Theatre); Strangers In The Night (A Play, A Pie, A Pint); Stags And Hens (101 Park Street); SHOUT! (The Boardwalk Glasgow); Common Is As Common Does (21Common, Made In Scotland 2024); Beauty And The Beast (Citizens Theatre, CATS Nominee 2026); Loud & Proud (Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Prime Theatre); NO PLACE LIKE HERE: A New Scottish Musical (The Boardwalk Glasgow).

Cormac also works regularly as a script reader and dramaturg, supporting emerging playwrights through the early development of new work.

  • SEMI-SKIMMED - Playwright & Director (Scottish Tour)

  • Strangers In The Night - Assistant Director (Play, Pie, Pint)

  • Loud and Proud - Featured Poet & Performer (Pitlochry Festival Theatre / Prime Theatre)

  • 12 Pirates Battle It Out (For A Chippy!) - Playwright & Director (Imagine That PA)

  • Under The Skin - Playwright & Director (Point5)

  • Wasps - Assistant Director (Play, Pie, Pint / Traverse Theatre)

  • The Ballad of Sonia The Skunk - Playwright & Director (Point5)

  • Tit For Tat - Director (Traverse Theatre, Not So Nice!)

  • Stags And Hens - Associate Director (New College Lanarkshire)

    Stags And Hens - Associate Director (New College Lanarkshire)

  • Common Is As Common Does: A Memoir - Collaborating Artist & Performer (21Common, Made In Scotland Award 2024)

  • No Place Like Here: A New Scottish Musical - Playwright (New College Lanarkshire)

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Director (Imagine That PA) In-The-Round Production

  • SHOUT! The Mod Musical - Associate Director (New College Lanarkshire)

  • "Cormac shows himself to be an exciting talent, not just one to watch, but one you wish you’d known about sooner."

    - ★ ★ ★ ★ Flora Gosling

  • "Writer and director Cormac Myles successfully transforms the setting into a space that feels simultaneously cosy and unsettling. "

    - ★ ★ ★ ★ The Review Hub

  • "Under Cormac Myles’ direction, this is a tense dissection of a relationship, the two men veering from hurt and hostility to an uneasy admission that their anger stems from a place of love."

    - ★ ★ ★ ★ Bouquets & Brickbats

  • "The writing in this play was excellent!"

    - ★ ★ ★ ★ The Theatre Girlies

  • "Semi-Skimmed is an arresting debut for (Cormac Myles)."

    - ★ ★ ★ ★ The Theatre Write Up