Michael Mabbott is a Canadian film and television director and writer.
[3] Mabbott and the film's star, musician Matt Murphy, received two Genie Award nominations for Best Original Song at the 26th Genie Awards in 2006 for the songs "Just a Show" and "Make Believe".
[5] He subsequently directed episodes of the television series Life with Derek, Wingin' It, Overruled!
and Baxter before co-creating, with writer David Eddie, the six-episode series The Yard, which aired on HBO Canada in 2011.
[6] In 2024, Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee released the documentary film Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story.