Michael Attenborough is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. Previously, he was Associate Director, Mercury Theatre, Colchester (1972-74), Associate Director, Leeds Playhouse (now West Yorkshire Playhouse) (1974-79), Associate Director, Young Vic (1979-80), Artistic Director, Palace Theatre, Watford (1980-84), Artistic Director, Hampstead Theatre (1984-89), Principal Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company (1990-2002). On leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company he was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist.

Productions include: For the Almeida: Awake and Sing!; Big White Fog; There Came A Gypsy Riding; Enemies; The Late Henry Moss; Brighton Rock; The Mercy Seat; Five Gold Rings.
For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Amphibians;, The Changeling; Les Liaisons Dangereuses (UK & European Tour); After Easter; Pentecost; The Herbal Bed (also in the West End & on Broadway); Romeo and Juliet; A Month in the Country; Othello; Henry IV parts 1 and 2; The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Antony and Cleopatra.
For the Palace Theatre: The Girl in Melanie Klein; The Big Knife; Romantic Comedy (also in the West End); Terra Nova.
For the Hampstead Theatre: The War at Home (also on Broadway); Particular Friendships; That Summer; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Separation (also in the West End).
Freelance: Over a Barrel; Single Spies (Turnstyle Group); 1984 (Citadel Theatre, Edmonton);Yerma (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Anna Weiss (West End); My Mother Said I Never Should (Royal Court); Fashion (Tricycle Theatre); Apollo and Daphne (North Wall); Playing with Fire (National Theatre).