A multi award-winning opera/music-theatre composer, librettist and stage director, Conor Mitchell’s work blends the worlds of stage design with contemporary visual arts and engages audiences through socially relevant, politically charged subjects. A double Ivor Novello British Composer Awards nominee, he is the recipient of the Arts Council Northern Ireland Major Individual Artists Award and a life fellow of the Arts Foundation for composition, he is also the only non-American to hold 'best score' at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Known as much for his symphonic and opera work, recent collaborations include Rome, Holland, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh festivals, the National Theatre, Irish National Opera, Cheltenham Music festival/Wild Plum Arts, Ulster Orchestra, Outburst Queer Arts Festival and Young at Art. His work is regularly taught at conservatoires, including the Royal Academy of Music, London. 

He has recently been Composer in Residence at Wexford Opera, a Seamus Heaney Writer’s Fellow for Queens University Belfast and is currently the Artistic Director of the award-winning. His opera Abomination: a DUP Opera was listed in the Top Ten Classical Works of 2019 and won 'Best Opera Production' at the 2020 Irish Times Theatre Awards and has just enjoyed a successful run at London’s Southbank Centre.