ABOUT MWPE
MWP Entertainment is theatrical producing, general management, and consultancy company serving the arts industry in New York and London. Owned and operated by two-time Tony Award nominated producer Michael Page, MWPE focuses its resources on bringing dynamic artists and stories to audiences worldwide. Michael has dedicated his career to the arts having served as the general manager of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Old Globe, Theatre for a New Audience, the Vineyard Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, as well as an independent producer, arts marketer, and maker. His career spans 25-years and over 250 productions in various capacities.
As a producer and investor Michael’s Broadway and West End credits include the NYC production of SpitLip’s Operation Mincemeat (2025 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical); David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses and David Cromer’s Dead Outlaw (2025 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical); the Tony Award winning revival of Sunset Blvd. directed by Jamie Lloyd, starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis; the West End transfer and UK/Ireland tour of Jordan Fein’s Olivier Award winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof; Jamie Lloyd’s current production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s Evita starring Rachel Zegler and Diego Andres Rodriguez at the London Palladium; Marc Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award winning Best Play Giant starring John Lithgow, The Last Five Years directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, starring Tony winner Adrienne Warren and Grammy nominee Nick Jonas; the upcoming West End production of The Producers; and this fall’s Broadway revival of Ragtime directed by Tony nominee Lear DeBessonet, starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, and Tony Award winners Shaina Taub and Brandon Uranowitz at Lincoln Center Theater. Michael is also an investor in the upcoming film version of the 2024 Tony winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along starring Jonathan Groff, Lindsey Mendez, and Daniel Ratcliffe, directed by Maria Friedman.
As a general manager Michael has collaborated with some of the greatest artists on the world stage including Julie Taymor, Branden Jacob Jenkins, Rajiv Joseph, Liliana Blain-Cruz, Will Eno, Trevor Nunn, Arin Arbus, Simon Godwin, Anne Kaufman, Graciela Danielle, John Kander, Oliver Butler, PigPen Theatre Company, Sarah Benson, Darko Tresjnak, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Richard Maxwell, Christopher Bayes, Fiasco Theater, Thaddeus Phillips, Adrienne Kennedy, John Michael LaChiusa, Nilaja Sun, Kathleen Chalfant, Steve Cosson/The Civilians, and the late great Peter Brook. Select list of managed productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Octoroon, The North Pool, Fefu and Her Friends, Gnit, Pericles, Kid Victory, The Skin of Our Teeth, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, Somewhere Fun, The Gardens of Anuncia, Fairview, The Killer, King Lear, Cymbeline, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Doll’s House, The Father, The Valley of Astonishment, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Happy Days, Tamburlaine the Great, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Capsule 33, No Child…, Gone Missing, and David Cromer’s landmark production of Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre among others.
As a director Michael has staged productions of The Laramie Project, Man of La Mancha, HAIR, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Angels in America, Much Ado About Nothing, The Memory of Water, Gloria, A Bright Room Called Day, Romeo & Juliet, Marat/Sade, The Cocktail Hour, Trojan Women, A Thousand Points of Light, Medea, Bent, The Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Therese Raquin, many works by Tennessee Williams including The Glass Menagerie, Vieux Carre, Small Craft Warnings, Talk to Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen, Camino Real, The Gnadiges Frauline, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, and new works by Tony Glazer, Melissa Gawlowski Pratt, Laura Caufield, Glen Berger, Tom Wirtshafter, Ron Brawer, Matthew Cleaver, and Joshua Cohen.
Michael is an associate member of The Broadway League, a member of the Broadway Producer’s Alliance, and has served on the Board of Directors of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT), the Off-Broadway League, and the Lucille Lortel Award Administration Committee.
He is also the current chair of the MFA program in Performing Arts Management within the theater department at Brooklyn College.
Michael holds an MFA in directing from the School of Theatre at Ohio University, a Master’s degree in Business Management & Leadership from the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies, and a Bachelor’s degree in theatre and English literature from Eastern Michigan University, where he was recently honored with the 2025 Alumni Achievement Award.
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