Shonagh Murray

Biography

Shonagh Murray is a musical director, composer/writer and teacher based in Glasgow. Her most recent MD credits are A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Art Centre & KT Producing); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (Kick Ass Theatre Productions Ltd, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland, Associate Music Director); Bairns in the Woods (Martin & Martin Productions); Saturdays Doon The JM (Dundee Rep Theatre) as well as SIX: UK Tour (Global Musicals Ltd, cover MD/Joan). In her work as a composer, Shonagh’s children’s musical Nessie was selected for Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s New Musical Commissioning Hub 2021, and her musicals Armour & Burns both received an award for score composition from Musical Theatre Review (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019). As a teacher, Shonagh has lectured at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the London College of Music, as well as guest tutoring at Mountview.