Michelle works as a theatre-maker and writer for stage, TV and radio. She began her career as a stand-up comic and actor and in 2000 she set up the Dublin theatre production company READCO now Living Space Theatre, which she co-runs, and for which she writes, produces and occasionally performs.

In 1996 Michelle produced her first play, The Lost Letters Of A Victorian Lady, which premiered at the 1996 Dublin Fringe Festival. The play was restaged in 2004 by Bewleys Café Theatre and is published in the Irish anthology Seen & Heard. Her second play Romantic Friction also premiered at the Dublin Fringe, and went on to win a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival. Michelle subsequently adapted it into a four part comedy series for BBC Radio 4 (broadcast 2001 & 2003). She has also written plays for Macra Na Feirme (Family Planning, 2000) and the Gaiety School of Acting, (Lower Than The Heart, 2001) and her radio comedy A Day In The Life Of Kitty Sway won an Ondas award in Spain in 2002. In 2003 Michelle wrote The Other Side (Project Arts Centre), created with Tara Derrington and Natalie Stringer, which won the Stewart Parker/BBC NI Drama Award. She also wrote the autobiographical theatre piece Play About My Dad, for the company (Project Arts Centre, 2006), in which she performed. Her latest stage play Snakelight won the Eamon Keane full-length play award at Listowel Writers’ Week 2009.

Michelle also works as a voice-over artist and improviser and teaches dramatic writing. She has an MA in screenwriting from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and has also written for the continuing drama series Fair City. 

For more information on Michelle and her work you can visit her website.