Michael is Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. For the Donmar: Ivanov, The Chalk Garden, Othello – Evening Standard Award for Best Director for all three productions, John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon (also Gielgud, Broadway and USA tour), The Cut (also UK tour), The Wild Duck – 2006 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director, Grand Hotel – 2005 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production & 2004 Evening Standard Award for Best Director, Pirandello’s Henry IV (also UK tour), After Miss Julie, Caligula – 2004 Olivier Award for Best Director, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along – 2001 Olivier Award for Best Musical & 2000 Critics’ Circle for Best Director, Passion Play – 2001 Critics’ Circle & 2000 Evening Standard Awards for Best Director, Good. For the West End: Evita (Adelphi), Guys and Dolls (a Donmar production at the Piccadilly – 2006 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production).

For the Donmar: Ivanov, Othello, Parade, Frost/Nixon (also West End & Broadway), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Don Juan in Soho, Grand Hotel – The Musical, Henry IV, World Music, Caligula – 2003 Evening Standard Award for Best Design, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion Play, Good, The Bullet. Theatre: includes King Lear/The Seagull (RSC), Evita (Adelphi), Macbeth, The Jew of Malta, The Embalmer (Almeida), Stuff Happens, Marriage Play/Finding the Sun, Summerfolk, Power – 2004 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design (NT), Oleanna (Gielgud), Loyal Women, Fucking Games (Royal Court), The Caretaker, All My Sons (Bristol Old Vic).

For the Donmar: Piaf, Parade – 2008 Knight of Illumination Award, John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, The Cryptogram, Frost/Nixon – 2007 Outer Critics’ Circle nomination, The Wild Duck, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Henry IV, World Music, After Miss Julie, Caligula. Theatre: includes Oedipus, Her Naked Skin, Afterlife, The Emperor Jones, Philistines, The Man of Mode, Thérèse Raquin – 2007 Olivier Award nomination, The Seafarer, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Fix Up, The Night Season, A Prayer for Owen Meany (NT), King Lear, The Seagull, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, King John (RSC), The Homecoming, Marianne Dreams, Dying for It, Tom & Viv (Almeida), No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s), Dealer’s Choice (Trafalgar Studios), A Life in the Theatre (Apollo).

For the Donmar: The Vortex. Theatre: includes The Comedy of Errors (Globe), Live Like Pigs (Royal Court), The Tempest (Old Vic), Richard III, Don Juan, Edward II, The Country Wife, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible), The Jew of Malta, The Doctor's Dilemma, Venice Preserved (Almeida). Opera: includes The Knight Crew, The Yellow Sofa (Glyndebourne), Varjak Paw (The Opera Group), Dolffin, Wild Cat (WNO). Ballet: includes The Snow Queen, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (English National Ballet). Orchestral: includes Out of Light (Tanglewood 2005, BBC Proms 2001), Strange Seas (Britten Sinfonia, April 1998).

For the Donmar: This Is How It Goes, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Henry IV, Caligula, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion Play, Orpheus Descending, Lobby Hero, Juno and the Paycock, True West, Electra, Habeas Corpus, Endgame, How I Learned to Drive, The Bullet, The Life of Stuff, Playland. Theatre: includes Up for Grabs (Wyndham’s), I’ll Be the Devil, Volpone, Cordelia Dream, King Lear/The Seagull (RSC), The Jew of Malta, The Shape of Things, BASH, The Distance from Here (Almeida).

As choreographer: includes The Water of Red and Brown (Young Vic), This Moment Is Your Life (for the 2008 Place Prize), The Diminishing Present (bgroup – www.bgroup.org.uk, ID Arts Alliance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Opera North), Donna Del Largo (Garsington Opera), La Fanciulla Del West, Macbeth, Dead Man Walking and Faust (Malmo Opera), Tobias and the Angel (Young Vic/ETO), Don Giovanni (Scottish Opera), As You Like It (Wyndham’s), Odyssey collaborating with Rachel Krische, and Interim with US artist Allyson Green (Danspace NYC). As performer: includes two-man play Sinner (Stan Won’t Dance, US tour), work for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Ricochet, LCDT, Richard Alston, Amanda Miller’s company Pretty Ugly. In 1995, created the role of the Prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake (UK, London, Los Angeles, Broadway, Japan, Korea) and the Golden Monkey in the original production of His Dark Materials (NT).