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Mick Muldoon

Mick Muldoon

BA (Hons) English and Philosophy (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
MA English Literature and Creative Writing (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) P: +353-1-4027997
E: mick.muldoon@dit.ie
Campus: Aungier Street

Mick Muldoon co-ordinates and lectures on the MA programme in Creative Media Technologies. His specialties include digital video and DVD design and authoring. He obtained his Masters Degrees (cum laude) in English Literature and Creative Writing in 1971 from the University of Windsor (Canada) and was recipient of the Brokenshire Memorial Award for Creative Writing (thesis supervisor was the distinguished American writer Joyce Carol Oates). He then moved to Dublin to take up a fellowship at Trinity College, but declined the offer of doctorate studies to work in films. He worked in the feature film industry in the mid 1970s and early 1980s with directors such as Stanley Kubrick, John Boorman, Michael Crichton, Sam Fuller, Roger Corman, amongst others. He served in several other capacities – assistant director, actor, action co-ordinator and writer. He wrote and directed documentaries, such as Seeing the Light (1990) – a portrait of filmmaker John Boorman, Crime Pays for Elmore Leonard (1991) – a portrait of America’s undisputed king of crime writers, music videos for Sony Music, EMI, and several specialist programmes for museums and heritage centres. He has also written film scripts for Merlin Films (John Boorman), Concorde (Roger Corman), Grand Pictures (Michael Garland), which received development awards from the Irish Film Board and the European Media Development Agency. In 2007 he was commissioned by Grand Pictures to write Deadman’s Gold, a feature film script, which received funding from the Irish Film Board and the European Media Development Agency. He has written and produced linear and interactive programming (information kiosk, CD-ROM and DVD) for Guinness, Microsoft, Ericcson, Motorola as well as for The National Museum of Ireland and for several other cultural centres in Ireland on subjects which ranged from 5,000 year old passage graves and medieval warfare to 18th century silver and 19th century penal institutions, many of which received awards including The Gulbenkian Award for Large and Small Museums, Interpreting Britain and Ireland, and Discovering Ireland for the Firefly Production Group Ltd. His script Deadman's Gold (Producer, Michael Garland, Grand Pictures, Ireland) was selected for the Strategic Partners Forum at the Atlantic Film Festival (2008), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and he is currently working on Patient Gold, a feature film commission from Grand Pictures.

Selected Publications

2003
Cathcart, Rex, Muldoon, Michael, ‘Chapter XXIII, The Mass Media in Twentieth Century Ireland’, A New History of Ireland, Volume VII, Ireland 1921-1984, J.R. Hill (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Selected Feature Film Scripts

2006
Deadman's Gold, Grand Pictures. Irish Film Board Development Award, European Media Development Agency Award.

1996
Bourke and Blake Grand Pictures. Irish Film Board Development Award, European Media Development Agency Award.

1994
The Factory Girls (An adaptation of Frank McGuinness' play). Irish Film Board Development Award.

1992
Chain of Fools. Concorde Films.

1991
The Final Score. Merlin Films.

1987
Turnabout. New World Films, Irish Film Board Development Award.

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