Michelle Aguillon

Recent directing credits include Once On This Island, Exit, Pursued by the Bear), Dance Nation, The Kittie Knox Plays (world premiere), Yellow Face, In the Heights, Appropriate, Rabbit Hole, The Pillowman, Marjorie Prime, Piano Lesson, Hold These Truths, Natural Shocks, Middleton Heights (world premiere), Dracula, a feminist revenge fantasy, really, Fences, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Joy Luck Club, Disgraced, True West, Vietgone, Proof, Elephant Man, Passion, and the Asian-American Playwright Collective Playfests (2018-Present/writer, director, producer).

For Learning How to Read by Moonlight (world premiere) at Chuang Stage/Company One, Michelle served as the production’s dramaturg and tour director. She won Best Costume Design for The Mountaintop by Katori Hall at the 2021 aactWorldFest. Michelle’s short plays have been produced by Fresh Ink for their annual Mad Dash Festival, and by Hovey Players (2022) and Chuang Stage (2024) for the Boston Playwrights Theatre Annual Boston Theater Marathon at Boston Playwrights Theater. Michelle is the Executive Director of the Creative Arts School of music, theatre, and art in Reading, MA.