Directing and assistant directing include Beautiful Thing with Nicu’s Spoon Theater and Sons of the Prophet, by Stephen Karam, with Roundabout Theatre Company. As a writer, Michelle has had her work optioned, produced, adapted, and published in New York City. She has also created plays using devising and verbatim processes. In the mental health and suicidology space, Michelle has impacted national training standards in crisis counseling, is published in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (2020 and 2021), and has spoken to thousands of people anonymously on multiple crisis lines. 

Michelle is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, as well as the Actors Equity Association. Michelle is also a member of the Think Tank for Theatrical Innovation, a think-tank and activist group that identifies obstacles to equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in the theater industry, advocating for and enabling change.

As a SWANA/MENA person and the proud daughter of an immigrant from Turkey, she is thrilled to be a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-Op, a joyfully collaborative and peer-led space for Middle Eastern writers.