Director

Michael is the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse.

His work for the Donmar includes: Guys and Dolls (currently running at the Piccadilly, Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production), The Cut, The Wild Duck, Grand Hotel (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Pirandello’s Henry IV, After Miss Julie, Caligula, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier Award for Best Musical), Passion Play (transferred to the Comedy) and Good.

He was also artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 1999 to 2005, where he directed Don Carlos (also Gielgud), Suddenly Last Summer (also Albery), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (also Old Vic), Richard III, Don Juan, Edward II, The Country Wife, The Wild Duck, As You Like It (also Lyric, Hammersmith), Twelfth Night and What the Butler Saw. He has been given honorary doctorates by Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield University where he was also a visiting professor.

For the Almeida he has directed The Jew of Malta and The Doctor’s Dilemma, both of which went on national tours.

Other directing work includes The Last Yankee and The Deep Blue Sea for the Mercury, Colchester.

His production of Don Carlos won the 2005 Evening Standard Award for Best Director, the 2005 TMA Award for Best Director and the 2005 German British Forum Award for promoting relations between England and Germany. He has also won the Olivier Award for Best Director for Caligula, the Evening Standard Award for Best Director for Grand Hotel, As You Like It, Passion Play, the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director for As You Like It, Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along, The Wild Duck and the South Bank Show Award for Theatre for As You Like It.

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