Michael is Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. For the Donmar: Othello, John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon (also West End and Broadway), The Cut (also UK tour), The Wild Duck (Critics' Circle Award for Best Director), Grand Hotel (Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production and Evening Standard Award for Best Director), Pirandello's Henry IV (also UK tour), After Miss Julie, Caligula (Olivier Award for Best Director), The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier Award for Best Musical and Critics' Circle Award for Best Director), Passion Play (Critics's Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director), Good.

For the Donmar: John Gabriel Borkman The Cryptogram, Boston Marriage (also New Ambassadors). 
Theatre includes: for the West End: The Dumb Waiter, The 39 Steps, Summer and Smoke, Donkeys' Years, The Home Place, The Birthday Party, Ying Tong, A Woman of No Importance; for the RSC: King John, Brand, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; for the NT: Honk!, Widowers' Houses. Other theatre work includes: Romance (Almeida), The Home Place (Gate Dublin), Honk! (UK tour, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and Singapore), The Scarlet Letter, Just So, Pal Joey (Chichester), Hilda (Hampstead), The Rivals (Bristol old Vic), The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).

For the Donmar: The Man Who Had All the Luck, Othello, Absurdia, The Cut, Little Foxes, Proof, Bondagers.
Theatre: Received the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for Don Carlos, 2005 Olivier Award for Best Lighting for His Dark Materials, 1999 LA Critics' Award for Amadeus and had further nominations for The Street of Crocodiles (Complicite), Amadeus, Uncle Vanya (RSC) and Play Without Words (NT).

For the Donmar: Othello, Frost/ Nixon (also Gielgud & Broadway - 2007 Drama Desk Award nomination), John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Caligula, Henry IV, The Wild Duck, The Cut. 
Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer - Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design (Albery), Don Carlos (Gielgud), The Glass Menagerie (Apollo), Speaking Like Magpies, The Tempest (RSC), The Late Henry Moss, Tom and Viv (Almeida).