Michelle is a director and published playwright from Essex.
Directing credits: The Collective (Young Vic – Taking Part); American Idiot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Chichester University); Pippin (Mountview); Co-Director for Good Enough Mums Club (UK Tour); To Have and to Hold (The Bush & Mercury, Colchester); The Liberators by Michelle Payne (PPA); Squad Goals by Michelle Payne (Dagenham and Redbridge FC).
As Resident Director/Associate Director: Bugsy Malone (London & UK Tour); The House With Chicken Legs (UK Tour); Errol’s Garden (UK Tour); Associate Choreographer for Pigs Might Fly from Michael Morpurgo’s MudPuddle Farm (UK Tour); Headcase (The Bush).
Michelle was shortlisted for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022 and for the Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023. Michelle was a 2019 recipient of the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme and in 2021 was selected for Future Forms with the Donmar Warehouse
