Cormac Myles is an award-winning emerging 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 interdisciplinary director, playwright, and artist based in Glasgow, specialising in contemporary theatre and new writing. His work is rooted in social and community contexts, engaging with the political landscape of the UK and beyond. He has also worked professionally as an actor, vocalist and dancer. Common themes in his work are grief, community, masculinity and the responsibility people feel for animals.

Credits include Beauty and The Beast (Citizens Theatre); Strangers In The Night (A Play, A Pie, A Pint); Wasps (A Play, A Pie, A Pint, Traverse Theatre); SEMI-SKIMMED (BlackWire); Loud & Proud (Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Prime Theatre); Common Is As Common Does: A Memoir (Johnstone Town Hall, Zoo Southside, Made In Scotland Award); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Imagine That PA); The Ballad of Sonia The Skunk (Airdrie Arts Centre); Under The Skin (Glasgow Acting Academy, Point5); 12 Pirates Battle It Out…For a Chippy! (Airdrie Arts Centre, ITPA); Alice By Heart (Impact Arts); The Caravel (Argyll Arcade, Space 45).

In 2025, Cormac was a featured poet and performer in Loud & Proud, a digital work presented by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Prime Theatre, alongside artists such as Alan Cumming. He was also the 2025 recipient of the Scottish Emerging Theatre Award 2025, courtesy of Framework Theatre Co. 

He has worked with a range of companies and theatres including the Citizens Theatre, Traverse Theatre, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OneRen, Future Paisley, Drive Official, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Prime Theatre and Creative Scotland.

  • 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)

  • Cosmic Crumble - Playwright & Director (Imagine That PA)

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

  • SEMI-SKIMMED - Playwright & Director (BLACKWIRE)

  • 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)

  • Double Denim - Playwright (Ripple Theatre Co / 18 Candleriggs)

  • 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)

IN DEVELOPMENT

  • Currently writing the book for a new Scottish Musical entitled ‘No Place Like Here’. With Song and Lyrics by Evan Elliott, and co-conceived by Rebecca Conway, Kady Smith, Niamh Watt.

  • Writing under commission for an award winning theatre company for work premiering in 26/27.

  • In the process of creating a book of original Scottish poetry, exploring Queerness and Identity.