Last night we closed AiTOPIA 🤖 📍Young Vic Thrilled to direct & work with 50 participants of Lambeth + Southwark to create a brand new show from scratch with YV Taking Part team So proud of the world we made!

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The lovely @smalltruththeatre.bsky.social are now on Blue-sky! Give them a follow 💖

Half way through tech week for AiTopia !! 📍Young Vic

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HELP NEEDED!🚨 We've just had a 2nd rejection from ACE for an R&D of our ADHD Musical Can anyone who is salaried working in a theatre/arts building/organisation with time/capacity for artist development read over the bid & provide a fresh eye? I would be super grateful - please drop me a DM.

Working on the next batch of theatre training features for #TheStage if you are a great teacher/coach/workshop leader or know somebody who is, please tag yourself or them in 👇👇👇

ok quick festive nap, then this. Here's what's up for us in 2025 (so far) ✨

The arena event returns!

Another Christmassy invite. 🎭 PAN! 📍Theatre Peckham

Huge congrats to brilliant Dan & Jeff for another successful Potted Panto press night at Wilton’s Music Hall 🎄🎅🏻 Thankyou for the invite x

A very cute evening supporting N54 Agency clients at the Polar Express Euston. Thank you for the invite 🎄🚂

I love this company 🫶🏻 Vote for us here: awards.whatsonstage.com/25th-annual-...

CARDBOARD CITIZENS For one week only, every donation doubles! The @BigGive Christmas Challenge is open. Your support over the next week ensures that we can continue to create life-changing work like 'More Than One Story'. Double your impact before 10 Dec: bit.ly/3CR4iG0

I’ve assisted but never directed a panto / Christmas show - this is on my bucket list for next year 🙏🏻 HMU if you’re thinking ahead to winter 2025 and meeting directors www.michelle-payne.co.uk

Applying for DYCP? We've got free templates for the app, budget + timeline in our *Resources*. Save yourself from a Grantium-related disaster by writing it somewhere else first! www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar... also helpful if you wanna know what you need to prep before deciding to apply 📝

Here goes nothing! #ShowreelFriday with @actorsnetworkuk.bsky.social Monologue reel done by Sebastian Thiel at #UpshotReels Full reel available here: app.spotlight.com/4935-5640-6520

The Dear Evan Hansen Christmas Party was a cute one. 🪩 Gonna miss this company over the Xmas break! 🫶🏻

And while I’m at it please can only brilliant people (yes that’s you) apply for this - we need a fantastic new plays associate at the Royal Court Theatre (RT we want all the best people to see and apply) royalcourttheatre.com/new-plays-as...

Final cover rehearsal of the year #DEHUKTour 🙏🏻🫶🏻

I have a few exciting musicals coming up and have some co-producer/associate producer opportunities on them. Let’s connect! [email protected]

Tell us about your show reports! From actor mishaps to technical tweaks, we want to hear about your wildest show reports from 2024 to include in a feature by The Stage. Please reach out to [email protected] by December 1st. #TheatreSky #StageManagers #Theatre

I’m directing AITOPIA for Young Vic Taking Part, challenging conventional methods of theatre-making & centring co-creation with 50 participants! We run for a week at the end of Jan. Tickets are free but limited You can book here - www.youngvic.org/whats-on/ait...

I’ve got a thing that I think would make a beautiful radio programme or audio piece, about happiness and young people. Is there a radio producer who can help me make it?

Black creatives in the North who are working in theatre arts - writers, poets, directors, actors, performers, movers, movement directors, theatre makers, facilitators, and artists. i have made a list for us!!

Making a list of all the theatre directors on here so people looking for collaborators have an easy place to find us- please ask to be added its very small so far! bsky.app/profile/did:...

a few recent theatre productions I’m really proud to have worked on - 1. The Effect, English Theatre Frankfurt 2. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, West End 3. The Dybbuk, Almeida 4. Perspective, National Theatre 🙏🏼❤️

📝 OPEN MIC SLOTS 📝 Do you want to perform your work at Tara Theatre? Whether it's poetry, monologues or music, sign-up on the night at Spoken Space and our band will improv a live soundtrack to your work 🎸 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Fri 22 Nov, 7.30PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/spo...

HOW DO YOU GET YOUR PLAY ON? This was the top question when Support Playwrights ran a #NoSillyQuestions initiative. We spoke to 12 brilliant playwrights & here's what they had to say! Writers incl #ChrisBush, @tommortonsmith.bsky.social, @hannykha.bsky.social ..... open.substack.com/pub/supportp...

I’m Michelle - mostly will talk about theatre - currently on tour with Dear Evan Hansen and directing AiTopia for Young Vic Taking Part. Want to grow my network on here for future theatre collabs and new pals 🫶🏻 www.michelle-payne.co.uk