Michael has spent his life making things that are funny, strange, and occasionally both at once.
He is a writer, director and comic performer with a distinctively absurdist sensibility. The kind that finds the joke hiding inside the drama, and the humanity hiding inside the joke.
His work has screened at BFI London Film Festival, Raindance, Encounters and Flickerfest, and his short film Just Desserts won the LOCO Discovery Award. He has directed for Channel 4 and created branded content for BBC, Netflix, Sky and beyond. His debut feature, Dee-Day, is optioned and heading to market, while a second feature is currently in development.
Michael has a particular gift with actors. He casts boldly, works instinctively and creates an environment where performers can surprise themselves. He is interested in finding the comedy and humanity that already exists in people, rather than imposing it on them.
Alongside film and television, Michael has been spreading his wings on the live comedy scene. He created and hosts Lose Your Marbles at the Canal Café Theatre in West London, a monthly alternative comedy night that has become a home for some of the most exciting and unpredictable acts in British comedy. Over the years, he has given a stage to Edinburgh Comedy Award winners and nominees, Malcolm Hardee Award winners and nominees, BAFTA winners and some of the country's most distinctive comic voices.
In 2026, Michael took his own show, Auditory Awakenings With Mr Tingles in the House of ASMR, to the Edinburgh Fringe, performing as Yogie Belle, his extreme ASMR practitioner and sound beautician alter ego. It was his first full solo run. Not every audience knew what to do with it. That's rather the point.
Michael is an artist unafraid of making something original rather than something safe. The show went on to win the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality and was longlisted for the Sarah Millican ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. Broadway Baby called it “absurd, utterly unique and very, very funny.” The Scotsman said, “Very few shows will be stranger than this. Mind. Blown.”
At the heart of how Michael works is a belief in play. Not play as an indulgence, but play as the most direct route to something real. The most memorable things he has made did not arrive with the biggest budgets. They arrived when talented people were given permission to be surprising.
That is where the connection happens. That is where audiences lean in.
If your project needs that kind of thinking, you are in the right place.
Things are moving.