WRITER & DIRECTOR

Michelle is a director and writer and published playwright from Essex. She was part of the Donmar Warehouse Future Forms programme in 2021 and completed a Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme at the Mercury Theatre Colchester in 2019.

Current and Forthcoming Credits Include:

Director Credits Include:

Vivian Panka: What’s Next? (Crazy Coqs); Flip (Workshop, National Youth Music Theatre); AiTopia (Young Vic: Taking Part); Pippin (Mountview); The Good Enough Mums Club (UK Tour); American Idiot (University of Chichester); To Have & To Hold (The Bush and Mercury Theatre); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (University of Chichester); The Liberators (Writer/Director — PPA); My Three Sisters by Holly Rose Hawgood (R&D; The Bush); Squad Goals (Writer/Director – Immersive Site-Specific Production, Dagenham & Redbridge Football Stadium); Find Me (VAULT Festival); Ordinary Days (Rose & Crown).

Associate Director Credits Include:

Legally Blonde (Curve & UK Tour); Under The Influence (Kings Head Theatre, Ed Fringe); Dear Evan Hansen (UK Tour); Errol’s Garden  (UK Tour);  Pig’s Might Fly  (UK Tour – Associate Director and Choreographer);  Summer Camp for Broken People  (Pleasance);  Headcase (The Bush).

Resident Director Credits Include:

The House With Chicken Legs  (Olivier Nominated: Best Family Show – UK Tour);  Bugsy Malone (Alexandra Palace and UK Tour).

Assistant Director Credits Include:

Writer Credits Include:

Michelle’s debut play Squad Goals about women’s football premiered at Dagenham & Redbridge stadium in 2020 and is published with Salamander Street. She is currently under commission with i.e. Productions for a new street dance play, and is developing two new musicals; Hyper! An ADHD Musical with Emy.P and Personality Hire with Charlie Turner & Vivian Panka.

Awards Include:

Short list – RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022

Short list – Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023

Long list – RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2023 and 2024