Michelle trained at RADA. She is an Olivier Award winning Actress working extensively in Theatre, TV, and Radio. She has written for stage and screen. She is currently the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe.

Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes: Richard III (2024); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023); King Lear (2022); The Fir Tree (2021); Twelfth Night (2021); The Taming of the Shrew (2020); Henry IV Part 1 (2019); Macbeth, Hamlet, and As You Like It (2018); The Complete Walks (2016); As You Like It (2015); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013); and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2007).

Other theatre credits include: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles and The Crucible (RSC); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Privacy and The Man Who Had All the Luck (Donmar Warehouse); Cleansed, 50 Years of the National Theatre, The Comedy of Errors, London Assurance, All’s Well That Ends Well, and England People Very Nice (National Theatre); Before the Party (Almeida); In the Republic of Happiness and Tribes (Royal Court); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola); War on Terror, Two Cigarettes, and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Bush); The Promise (New Wimbledon Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre); Burial at Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse); As You Like It (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under Lyme); and Blithe Spirit (for The Peter Hall Company on UK tour / Savoy Theatre).

TV credits include: Marcella (S2); The Café (S1, S2 as writer and performer); and Extras.

Michelle is an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University, and Trustee of Pentabus Theatre Company.