Michael McMillan, Arts.D. is a London based writer, playwright, artist/curator and scholar. His plays and performance pieces include: Blood for Britain (BBC4 Radio Drama 2001), The Good Person of Sezuen (an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht set in Trenchtown, Jamaica  (2013), Waiting for myself to appear (site-specific performance piece, 2019/triptych film installation, Museum of the Home).

His much praised and beloved installation The Front Room is permanently at the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum, where it was the most successful exhibition (2005-06). The Front Room is the basis of the BBC4 documentary, Tales from the Front Room (2009), and has been iterated internationally, in the Netherlands, Curacao, Johannesburg, Arles,  and most recently part of Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now (Tate Britain 2021-22) touring to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2022-23). McMillan is also the author of  The Front Room: Diaspora migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Lund Humphries 2023).  Other work includes: Sonic Vibrations: Sound systems, lovers rock and dub, a multi-media anthology guest edition (WritersMosaic online), Walking in the Wake, short film (Estuary Festival 2021), and I Miss My Mum’s Cookin’, installation, nominated for a Brighton Fringe award.

McMillan has the first arts doctorate from Middlesex University (2010), and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London), and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Visual Identities in Art & Design Research Centre (VIAD), at the University of Johannesburg.