Since 1997 Michael Keegan-Dolan has written directed, choreographed and co-produced six productions for his Irish midlands-based company, Fabulous Beast. These were; Sunday Lunch, Fragile, The Flowerbed, The Christmas Show, Giselle and The Bull. Giselle toured to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, USA and to the bite Festival at the Barbican Centre, London. Giselle Michael Keegan-Dolan was nominated for a 2006 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. It will be presented in the Festival-Dialog, Wroclaw, Poland in October 2007. The Flowerbed was performed at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 and at the Barbican and was nominated for a UK Critic’s Circle Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography. The Bull was also successfully presented in London at the bite Festival, BarbicanCentre in 2007.

His choreographic work also includes Faust and Macbeth (Royal Opera House) The Duchess of Malfi, Carousel and The Oedipus Plays; (Royal National Theatre), Ariodante, Manon and Alcina; (English National Opera) The Love for Three Oranges; (Cologne Opera) Pique Dame and Ariodante; (Bavarian State Opera) Ariodante andManon; (Houston Grand Opera). He has worked with director Chris Cunningham on his Video Art Creation, Flex.

His production of James Son of James is being performed at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.