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

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.