An established and successful designer for drama, opera and ballet Michael has collaborated with leading arts companies around the world.

West End credits include: The long-running West End success The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); Absurd Person Singular (Whitehall Theatre); The Glory of the Garden (Duke of York’s Theatre); Rough Justice (Apollo Theatre) and June Moon (Vaudeville Theatre). He designed Julius Caesar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and the highly successful centennial touring production of Charley’s Aunt.

Michael continues his long association with playwright Alan Ayckbourn at his theatre in Scarborough. His numerous designs for this author/director include the 40th anniversary production of Joking Apart, Better Off Dead, Hero’s Welcome, Confusions, Roundelay, The Boy Who Fell into a Book, Absurd Person Singular, Intimate Exchanges, The Safari Party, What Every Woman Knows, Taking Steps, Way Upstream, Man of the Moment and the much-praised Othello with Michael Gambon.

International credits include: The Woman in Black (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore); Ayckbourn’s Hero’s Welcome, Confusions, Intimate Exchanges and Season’s Greetings (New York) and many productions for Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, the Alley Theatre, Texas and the English Speaking Theatre in Vienna.

Opera productions include collaborations with the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, the Avignon Festival, France, the Knokke Opera Festival, Belgium and Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd for the Brisbane Festival, Australia.

Ballet designs to his credit include: The Sleeping Beauty, Quartet and Romeo and Juliet (Northern Ballet); Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrims Progress (the Royal Opera House) and Madame Butterfly (Hong Kong Ballet Company).

Michael has long associations with repertory companies and independent producers across the UK and regularly collaborates with the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, the Mill at Sonning, Oldham Coliseum and Birmingham Rep, to name just a few.

Michael has also written a number of books on stage and costume design and has published a book on the plays of Alan Ayckbourn.