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.
MWPE’s current Broadway, West End and tour credits include this season’s revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater; Bess Wohl’s Liberation at the James Earl Jones Theater; Oedipus starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville at Studio 54; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) starring Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts at the Longacre Theatre; SpitLip’s Operation Mincemeat (2025 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical); the West End transfer and UK/Ireland tour of Jordan Fein’s Olivier Award winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof; the West End revival of The Producers at the Garrick Theatre; and the pre-West End UK tour of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Other recent credits include Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita starring Rachel Zegler at the London Palladium; the West End transfer of Giant starring John Lithgow; Dead Outlaw (2025 Tony Award nomination for Best Musical); Jamie Lloyd’s Tony Award winning revival of Sunset Blvd.; and Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years starring Tony winner Adrienne Warren and Grammy nominee Nick Jonas. 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 Off-Broadway League, Lucille Lortel Award Administration Committee, and the Board of Directors of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT).
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.