​I create work through a poetic visual art lens and create singularly fantastical worlds that hybridize theatre, contemporary performance, dance theatre, fashion, architecture, art/light installations and pop culture. My work experiments with form, aesthetics and diversifies stories and storytellers. I am interested in developing a broad range of new theatrical projects and liberating classical work.
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“If we stay on a realistic level we remain ignorant of the eternal world and therefore of the true meaning of existence and destiny, of life and death.”
-Maurice Maeterlinck
Bio.
Michael has a diverse, and international, body of work - inclusive of classic and contemporary plays, new work, musical theatre, devised theatre, site specific/immersive theatre, performance art and art installations and events.
In London he has directed and developed work at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End, Arcola Theatre, Westminster Library, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the British Museum; he was a guest director at the Brighton Festival and the PreGlej Na Gras Festival in Lljubjana, Slovenia. In New York he has developed with the New York Theatre Workshop, Drama League, Hook and Eye Theatre, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Center at Park Westand Gallery Players. Regionally, he has directed at the Serenbe Playhouse, Shakespeare in the Woods, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, Hangar Theatre and Echo Theatre.
Michael is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and Drama League Directing Fellowship. He was a 2050 Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and director with Civilians R & D group.He studied Performance Art at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and Directing at California Institute of the Arts.
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Michael has started a new production company, The Muse Collective. Check it out here. He teaches Directing and Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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