Michelle Terry is currently the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. She trained at RADA is an Olivier Award-winning actress who works extensively in theatre, TV and radio, and also writes for stage and screen.

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

Other work in theatre includes: 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); 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 / Newcastle-Under Lyme); and Blithe Spirit (The Peter Hall Company on UK tour and in the West End).

TV includes: Marcella, The Café (writer and performer), and Extras.

Film includes: Five Truths for the V&A and National Theatre.

Writing includes: My Mark and Becoming (writer and performer for the Donmar); and Sudden Loss of Dignity (Bush).

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