Director | Scenographer | Visual Storyteller
I create theatrical worlds that reveal what language alone cannot.
I approach directing through scenography, treating the stage as a living architecture where every element becomes an author of meaning. I create immersive worlds that seduce the senses and awaken the imagination.
My work explores the intersection of myth and contemporary life, where memory, desire, and political history collide. I am drawn to the mythic as a living language that reveals inherited histories, collective anxieties, and the invisible forces shaping our current socio-political landscape.
Theatre is where the invisible takes form. My process uncovers the psychological, historical, and political forces buried within a story and transforms them into visceral experiences.
Working across theatre, installation, dance, and visual art, I create performances that invite audiences to experience the world as much through image and atmosphere as through story.
Every performance begins with the same question: What remains unseen until we create the conditions to see it?
“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 is a director, scenographer, and educator whose work spans theatre, installation, performance art, and interdisciplinary performance. His productions investigate the intersections of myth, memory, identity, and political history through visually immersive theatrical worlds.
His directing has been presented internationally and across the United States, including collaborations with the New York Theatre Workshop, the British Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Her Majesty's Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, Serenbe Playhouse, and numerous regional and university theatres. His work ranges from world-premiere plays and devised performance to radical reimaginings of classical texts.
He is a former New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and director with The Civilians R&D Group. He earned his MFA in Directing from the California Institute of the Arts and previously studied Performance Art at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
He joins the faculty of Dartmouth College as Assistant Professor of Theatre, where he teaches directing and acting while continuing to develop new work nationally and internationally.