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Michelle Payne
MICHELLE PAYNE
DIRECTOR & WRITER
SHE/HER
PIPPIN (Mountview)
Photography: Cesare de Giglio
MICHELLE PAYNE is a director & published playwright from Essex with a passion for musicals, adaptations & new writing.
Michelle was short-listed for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022 and long-listed in 2023. She was short-listed for the Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023.
Michelle was Resident Director on Olivier Nominated The House With Chicken Legs
Current writing credits: HYPER! An ADHD Musical (as part of Overture 2023), The Grind (ie Productions - Matt Cole & Morgan Large).
Recent directing credits: Director - Pippin (Mountview), Co-Director, w/ Sarah Meadows - Good Enough Mums Club (UK Tour).
Upcoming: Director - The Collective (Young Vic Taking Part), Associate Director - Errol's Garden (DEM Productions).
Michelle's work has been developed with & supported by Arts Council England, ALP & Aria Entertainment, Donmar Warehouse, Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. and Havering Changing.
Michelle is also a qualified Mental Health First Aider.
Overture Showcase 2023 (The Other Palace)
Credit: Steve Gregson Photography
MEMORY BOX
by Michelle Payne
WINNER - MERCURY MONOLOGUES 2020
Performed by Hannah Khalique-Brown
"Payne's writing is in its beautiful simplicity, razor sharp wit and hilarious observational humour"
- LONDON THEATRE 1
SQUAD GOALS (Dagenham & Redbridge FC 2020)
Credit: Zac Cooke Photography
ABOUT
PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR
Michelle is an Essex based published playwright & director recently Resident Director on the UK Tour of Bugsy Malone. She was long-listed for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award 2023, short-listed for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022 & short-listed for the Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023.
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