Bio
Michelle on location rehearsing “Use Your Words” with DP Patricia Mears, cast members Pearl Rhein and Autumn Hurlbert, and producer Nathalie Frederick. (Photograph taken by Sarah Saltwick, the screenwriter.)
Michelle Tattenbaum is a director and producer of film, theater and audio. She directed the New York premiere of the musical Nobody Loves You by Itamar Moses and Gaby Alter at Second Stage after directing the show's world premiere at the Old Globe (nominated for Best Director of a Musical). She directed and produced the short films “Idea” and “Use Your Words.” She was the Producing Director for Gen-Z Media, where she directed many scripted podcasts, including the Peabody Award-winning The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel and Six Minutes which is downloaded millions of times every month.
World premiere theater credits include The Sublet Experiment, a site-specific, touring production she directed and produced that played to sold-out crowds in New York City for over six months; the hip hop musical ms. estrada at the Flea; Dory Fantasmagory at New York City Children’s Theatre. She directed Urinetown (in Danish: Tissebyen) at Fredericia Teater in Denmark, nominated for the Reumert (Denmark’s Tonys) for Musical of the Year.
She has directed workshops and readings at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodspeed Musicals, and the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. She is a Drama League Directing Fellow and an SDC member. Michelle has a degree in Theatre Studies from Yale.
Outside the rehearsal room for Mother Jones and the Children's Crusade
That's Michelle on the left, directing a recording session of the scripted podcast Six Minutes.