Michelle Payne
MICHELLE PAYNE
DIRECTOR & WRITER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - DEAR EVAN HANSEN (UK TOUR + ASIA)
DIRECTOR
SQUAD GOALS
Squad Goals by Michelle Payne is an immersive, site-specific dance play about women's football, female friendship and working class ambition which ran at Dagenham & Redbridge football stadium in Sept 2020.
Creative Team
CO-DIRECTOR Michelle Payne
CO-DIRECTOR Mia Jerome
CHOREGRAPHER Sundeep Saini
PRODUCER Morag Davies
SOUND DESIGNER Nicola Chang
LIGHTING DESIGNER Holly Ellis
STAGE MANAGER Emily Blaxland
CASTING DIRECTOR Sydney Aldridge
PHOTOGRAPHY Zac Cooke
VIDEOGRAPHY West End Video
LOGO DESIGN Rebecca Pitt
Squad Goals is published with Salamander Street.
PRESS
"It was so funny... the writing was spot on" - Lucy Moss (Six)
"Packed with humour and charm" - The Stage
"Sheer jubilation" - A Younger Theatre
With thanks to...
Steve Thompson, Chris & Ben, Peter Freund and all at Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club, Stadium Stewards: Wayne Sacre, Peter Whaley, Antony Harman, John Morgan, Kelly Porter & Jason Barthram, Arts Council England, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Helen Mumby (The Soho Agency), George Spender (Salamander Street), Chloe Nelkin PR, Rebecca Pitt, Jamie Scott Smith (West End Video), Zac Cooke Photography, George Hughes & Daniel Starmer (Huge Star Productions), Inika Organics Make Up, Kelly Jones, Gurdev & Winefride Saini, Sarah & Jeffrey Clements, Vera & Norman Dawson, The Walsh Family, Gill & Steve Payne, Albie Payne, Nicholas McLean, Tracey Childs, Antony Stuart-Hicks, Leah Harvey, Barney Hughes, Steve Hastings, Kate Hall, Charlotte Bence, Ryan McBryde, Dilek Latif, Kate Golledge, Mathew Russell, Richard Swann, Christa Harris, Sophia de Souza, Stephanie Stevens, Emily Clark, Lauren Cooper, Clara Mainardi, Antonio Ayuso, Verona Smith & Hannah Khalique-Brown.
AiTOPIA
Young Vic Taking Part: Neighbourhood Theatre Company presents 'The Collective'.
An 8-month co-creation initiative to empower community artists (age 25+) to create a full production from scratch.
We chose 50 local adults to form 'The Collective' and divided them into working groups based on interests & skillsets. These working groups each held a piece of our process whilst being led & up-skilled by industry professionals to actualise The Collective's ideas & concepts.
The process was divided into four terms;
Term 1 Spring 2024 (1 evening a week) - ideas generation & exploring what the participants cared about.
Term 2: Summer 2024 (1 day a week) - writing scripts & initial design.
Term 3 Autumn 2024 (1.5 days a week) - model box presentation, acting workshops & dramaturgy.
Term 4 Jan/Feb 2025 (3 weeks intensive) - rehearsal, tech, 1wk production run.
Every participant actively contributed to each stage in this process and I was lucky enough to facilitate their journey, ensuring they could each see a part of their contribution somewhere in the final show.
Creative Team
DIRECTOR Michelle Payne
MOVEMENT CONSULTANT Christopher Tendai
SET & COSTUME DESIGN CONSULTANT Natalie Pryce
SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION CONSULTANT Matt Greaves
IN-HOUSE ADDITIONAL SOUND DESIGN SUPPORT Neil McKeown
IN-HOUSE LIGHTING DESIGN CONSULTANT George Heaton
CO-DRAMATURG Emma Dennis-Edwards
CO-DRAMATURG & EXEC PRODUCER Shereen Jasmin Phillips
LEAD PRODUCER Alisha Artry
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Michelle Cullimore
ASSISTANT PRODUCER Enyonam Ansah
TRAINEE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Nim Gill
COMPANY STAGE MANAGER Abi Morris
DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER Valentina Cutri
PHOTOGRAPHY Aaron Imuere
AiTopia ran for 1-week at the Young Vic in January 2025.
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GOOD ENOUGH MUMS CLUB
Good Enough Mums Club is a new British musical with accessibility at its core. The plot is about five mums as they navigate the challenges of motherhood while attempting to save their local community centre. The process included accessible working practice to accommodate an entire cast of mums and majority creative team who are parents.
Creative Team
MUSIC & LYRICS Verity Quade, Chris Passey
BOOK & LYRICS Emily Beecher
CO-DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGY Michelle Payne
CO-DIRECTOR Sarah Meadows
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Libby Todd
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Debbi Clarke
CHOREOGRAPHER Natasha Harrison
LIGHTING DESIGNER Aaron Dootson
SOUND DESIGNER Chris Murray
ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER Meadhbh Lyons
CASTING DIRECTOR Ellie Collyer-Bristow
PRODUCTION MANAGER Jack Greenyer
STAGE MANAGER Lucy Morris
Cast
Amy Ross, Joanna Kirkland, Rebecca Bernice-Amissah, Jade Samuels & Belinda Woolaston.
TO HAVE & TO HOLD
To Have & To Hold by Michelle Payne was funded by Arts Council England and supported by Havering Youth Council. As part of the process the piece was workshopped with members of the Violence Against young Women & Girls action group at HYC. The show ran as part of 'Essex on Stage' at The Bush.
Creative Team
DIRECTOR-WRITER Michelle Payne
PRODUCER Michaela Stern
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Misha Domadia
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Dariah Osterhage
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER EMY.P
LIGHTING DESIGNER Maisie Threadgold
TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER (ON BOOK) Bernice Rayner
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Ellie Dunton
PHOTOGRAPHER Danny Kaan
VIDEOGRAPHER Jake Waby
Cast
Tianna Sealy-Jewiss, George Whitehead
