Michael Fentiman Director
Michael trained as an actor at Bretton Hall and later as a director at Mountview Academy.
In 2020 his production of Amélie was nominated for three Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. The production's Original Cast Recording, which Michael co- produced, was nominated for Best Musical Theater Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ charming West End adaptation of the French film is a triumph The Times on Amélie (Criterion Theatre)
Agents
Dan Usztan Assistant [email protected] Charlotte Edwards 0203 214 0873 [email protected] 0203 214 0924
Credits
In Development
Production Company Notes THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Elliott & Harper/UK Tour Director 2021
Short Films
Production Company Notes
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] WATCHING ROSIE Original Theatre By Louise Coulthard 2020 Starring Miriam Margolyes and Amit Shah
Theatre
Production Company Notes THE WINDSORS: ENDGAME Prince of Wales Theatre By George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler- 2021 Moore
AMÉLIE Criterion Theatre West End transfer 2021
CINDERELLA THE MUSICAL Nuffield Southampton Theatres Director, Book and Lyrics 2019
AMÉLIE Watermill Theatre/UK Tour/The Music by Daniel Messé, Lyrics by 2019 Other Palace Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen & Book by Craig Lucas Nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
VALUED FRIENDS Rose Theatre Kingston By Stephen Jeffreys 2019
THE TAMING OF THE Sherman Theatre/Tron Theatre A radical new version by Jo Clifford SHREW 2019
THE IMPORTANCE OF Vaudeville Theatre/Classic By Oscar Wilde BEING EARNEST Spring 2018
THE LAST DAYS OF ANNE Historic Royal Palaces/Tower Writer/Director BOLEYN of London 2018
LOOT Park Theatre/Watermill Theatre By Joe Orton 2017
RAISING MARTHA Park Theatre By David Spicer 2017 Park 200 Nominated for Best New Play, Off West End Awards
BABE, THE SHEEP-PIG Polka Theatre/UK Tour By Dick King-Smith, adapted by 2016 - 2017 David Wood
RADA ATTENBOROUGH Hampton Court Palace GALA 2016
THE WAR HAS NOT YET Drum Theatre Plymouth By Mikhail Durnenkov STARTED 2016
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes A FEAST WITH THE GODS Almeida Theatre Gala Director 2015
MADE IN DAGENHAM: THE Stage Entertainment Associate Director MUSICAL Dir. Rupert Goold 2014 - 2015
BY ROYAL COMMAND Almeida Theatre Gala Director 2014
MINOTAUR Polka Theatre/Clwyd Theatr By Kevin Dyer 2014 Cymru Finalist for Best Production For Young People, 2014 Off West End Awards
THE TAMING OF THE Royal Shakespeare First Encounter SHREW Company/US tour 2014
TITUS ANDRONICUS Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre 2013
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Cambridge Arts Theatre 2013
THE LION, THE WITCH AND ThreeSixty Entertainment Co-Director (with Rupert Goold) THE WARDROBE 2012
CRACKERS Belgrade Theatre Coventry By Forbes Masson 2011
OPENING CEREMONY OF Royal Shakespeare Company ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE 2011
AHASVERUS Royal Shakespeare By Vassily Sigarev 2011 Company/Hampstead Theatre
DOUBLE FALSEHOOD Nottingham Playhouse Rehearsed Reading 2010
HAMLET Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Director 2010 Dir. Tarell Alvin McCraney
A TENDER THING Royal Shakespeare Company Assistant Director 2009 Dir. Helena Kaut-Howson By Ben Power
ROMEO AND JULIET Royal Shakespeare Company Assistant Director 2009 Dir. Rupert Goold
AS YOU LIKE IT Royal Shakespeare Company Assistant Director 2009 Dir. Michael Boyd
ALADDIN Qdos/Hawth Theatre, Crawley 2008
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes SPOONFACE STEINBERG UK Tour 2008
LADY OF SORROWS Little Angel (Workshop) 2008
AJAX Altitude North Amphitheatre Tour of Cyprus 2007
Other
Production Company Notes ROAD RWCMD By Jim Cartwright 2018
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS RWCMD ISCARIOT 2017
PUNK ROCK RWCMD 2017
CLYBOURNE PARK RADA (GBS Theatre) 2016
SWEENEY TODD Royal Academy of Music/Theatre By Stephen Sondheim and 2016 Royal Stratford East Hugh Wheeler
DRACULA LAMDA at the Pleasance By Liz Lochhead 2016
IN ARABIA WE'D ALL BE KINGS RADA (Vanbrugh Theatre) 2015
I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, RWCMD NOW CHANGE 2015
AS YOU LIKE IT RADA (Vanbrugh Theatre) 2015
YUSUPOV Mountview Academy 2014
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Mountview Academy 2012
Television
Production Company Notes
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] SHAKESPEARE UNLOCKED BBC Created and delivered content for 3 x 30 min 2011 programmes as part of Cultural Olympiad.
Radio
Production Company Notes HATTON CROSS Urban Scrawl 2009
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected]