Michelle is currently directing and dramaturgically developing the new musical Sunken Cathedral, which was recently accepted to New York Theatre Barn’s prestigious summer residency, Barn on Fire (2025), for which only two musicals were accepted. 

As a musical theater writer, Michelle is currently developing Living: A Now Musical with Taylor Fagins (American Idol Season 20). As a playwright, she was a finalist for Working Theater’s Mark Plesent Commission Fund (2025), and is currently developing The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, a science fiction play about how far we’re willing to go to avoid death, and I’m Scared, a play about xenophobia and whose children deserve to feel safe (Noor Theatre Highlight Series, Finalist 2025).

She is also currently dramaturgically developing the new musical, Alone.