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Michelle Payne
MICHELLE PAYNE
DIRECTOR & WRITER
SHE/HER
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 & 2024. She was short-listed for the Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023.
Current: Director - Aitopia by The Collective (Young Vic Taking Part), Associate Director - Dear Evan Hansen (UK Tour).
Current writing credits: HYPER! An ADHD Musical (as part of Overture 2023), The Grind (ie Productions - Matt Cole & Morgan Large)..
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.
AMERICAN IDIOT
Photography by Danny Kaan
Michelle is currently the director of The Collective - a 50 participant community project for Young Vic Taking Part -in collaboration with producer Alisha Artry.
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The production will run 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 at the Young Vic
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ABOUT
PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR
Michelle is an Essex based published playwright & director, currently Associate Director on the UK Tour of Dear Evan Hansen. She was long-listed for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Award 2023 & 2024, short-listed for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2022 & short-listed for the Young Vic Genesis Future Director Award 2023.
"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
MEMORY BOX
by Michelle Payne
WINNER - MERCURY MONOLOGUES 2020
Performed by Hannah Khalique-Brown
HYPER! An ADHD Musical
Overture Showcase 2023 (The Other Palace)
Credit: Steve Gregson Photography
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