Michelle is an Intimacy Director & Coordinator for stage and screen, and an award-winning theatre director, producer, teaching artist and playwright.

For the stage, Michelle’s credits include Do Not Go Gentle (Queensland Theatre Co.), The Drover’s Wife (QPAC, Opera Australia & Oombarra Productions) La Bohème, Così fan tutte, La Traviata (Opera Queensland), La Traviata (Opera Australia), Fourteen, Fourthcoming (Shake & Stir), Equus (X-Collective), & Juliet, Legally Blonde (QAEMT), The Boys (PIP Theatre), GREASE (QPAC/QCGU), 42nd Street, Heathers, Cry Baby (QCGU), Horizon (Playlab), Zigzag St, Spike Heels, The Normal Heart (AdAstra), Against the Wall (Passion Productions) and Genesis (A Very Theatre Company). For screen, Michelle has worked on Apples Never Fall, La Brea, Deadloch, Troppo, Darby & Joan, All My Friends Are Racist, and feature films You Always, 7 Snipers, The Possessed and Great White, and shorts Little Addy, Hidden Extracts.

Michelle is a former Creative Resident with Queensland Theatre, Associate Artist with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, and has worked as a Director and Teaching Artist for Queensland Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (Musical Theatre, Acting and Classical Music), QUT, USQ, ACPA and numerous independent theatre companies.

Michelle’s awards and accolades include the 2009 Gold Matilda Award for Directing & Producing Outstanding Independent Theatre in QLD, Best Emerging Artist and Best Director, the 2011 Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young & Emerging Artist Fellowship, and Australia Council’s National Mentoring Program JUMP. Michelle graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Arts Honours (Drama).