Michelle trained at RADA. She is an Olivier Award winning Actress working extensively in Theatre, television, 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: 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 includes: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles an The Crucible for the RSC; Henry V at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Privacy and The Man Who Had All the Luck at the 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 at the National Theatre; Before the Party at the Almeida; In the Republic of Happiness and Tribes at the Royal Court; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at the Arcola; War on Terror, Two Cigarettes and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at the Bush; The Promise at the New Wimbledon Theatre; Beautiful Thing at Sound Theatre; Burial at Thebes at Nottingham Playhouse; As You Like It at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under Lyme; and Blithe Spirit for The Peter Hall Company on UK tour and at the Savoy Theatre.

TV includes Marcella Series 2, The Café Series 1 and 2 (as writer and performer) and Extras.

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