Welcome! My name is Michèle. 

 Artistic joy is the center of my work.

I’m a NYC based director and creative committed to creating, funding, and sharing theater that strengthens communities. My artistic priorities currently revolve around community building and radical joy practices as a manifestation of art for social change. I hold a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence college, where my creative identity as a multi hyphenate began to really take shape. 

I feel a strong responsibility to prioritize the physical, emotional, and creative wellbeing of my artistic collaborators in my work, regardless of my role. I also have a passion for the intersection of classical heightened text and new devised work, combining my experience as a scholar with a movement background. 

My career is a patchwork of experiences that make up who I am today. 

I am primarily a director and arts administrator, but my supplementary experience as a writer, stage manager, sound and lighting designer, intimacy coordinator, theatrical combatant, and educator lend a number of unique perspectives to my work. I direct work that is classic in form and cutting edge in creation. My work is inherently queer and neurodivergent.

I’m also an experienced administrator who has worked in the nonprofit theater world as a grants manager, producer, project manager, and researcher since 2020. Currently, I work in development with Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, and recently finished a year with the Juilliard school assisting with interdisciplinary producing in the Office of the President- Creative Enterprise. I’m passionate about supporting work that prioritizes accessibility, equity, creativity, and excellence, and love supporting other artists. 

My collaborators:

I have an unlimited metro card and a lot of frequent flier miles. You may have seen me at: 

• The Tank
• The Kennedy Center (2024 Directing Intensive)
• The Juilliard School 
• Treasure Valley Children’s Theater
• Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
• Migration Theory
• Idaho Shakespeare Festival
• Opera Idaho 
• Boise Little Theater 

More than my work… 

If I’m not at the theater, I can usually be found scaring family and friends with plant based cooking experiments, reading, or arguing about whether or not I really need to buy another expensive cheese.

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Current Projects:

• Grants Manager @ Treasure Valley Children’s Theater
• Assistant House Management @ Smith Street Stage

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