Scott McQuaid

Scott McQuaid is a British writer and director for stage and screen that grew up in Essex, England. He spent most of his teenage years making camcorder movies with the kids in his neighborhood. With a great admiration for Hong Kong movies, he moved to Hong Kong and began his career volunteering on film sets. He worked as a production assistant and sometimes as an extra from 1995 to 1998. McQuaid later turned his attention to theatre and began writing and directing skits, plays and musicals. He majored in performing arts and then with a masters in film making. He worked in England, America and Japan before eventually relocating to Malaysia, where he took the position as resident director for the Cempaka Performing Arts Company. During this time, he has directed numerous plays and musicals winning consecutive BOH Cameronian Art Awards including the best director award. He has also been recognized by the Malaysian book of records for producing an original musical. McQuaid started up his own stage company, pop up theatre and also a film production house, plastic monkey films and after producing a handful of short films, that screened at various film festivals he then made his debut feature movie in 2017. On a shoe string budget with an intense 22 day shoot, he made the self-aware B movie 'Space Ninjas', which was released worldwide on streaming networks Amazon Prime, iTunes, Apple TV, Fandango Now and Avail TV. He continues to create new imaginative works for both stage and screen.