Mike Payette is a director, educator and actor who has appeared at some of Canada’s finest theatres. He has worked with incredible companies across the country including The Citadel, Vertigo, Banff Centre, Geordie, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Repercussion Theatre, Segal
Centre, Centaur, The Grand, Factory Theatre, Neptune, and the National Arts Centre, among others.

Directing credits include Mischief (Neptune/Tarragon/Native Earth Performing Arts); Come
Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall, Cockroach, Craze, and Paint Me This House of Love
(Tarragon), Takwahiminana (Soulpepper/Punctuate Theatre), Blithe Spirit (Shaw Festival),
Choir Boy (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre and Centaur), Harlem Duet (Black Theatre
Workshop), Another Home Invasion (Tableau D’Hôte Theatre), Hosanna (Centaur/TDHT),
Around the World in 80 Days, and Reaching for Starlight (Geordie), Venus, Burning Vision and
Indecent (National Theatre School), Sensitivity (Obsidian Theatre/CBC Gem, as part of 21 Black
Futures), the French-language premiere of Héritage – A Raisin in the Sun (Théâtre Duceppe),
along with the national tours of The Tashme Project (Tashme Prod/Centaur/Factory/Firehall)
and Lorena Gale’s Angélique (BTW/Tableau D’Hôte/NAC/Factory/Obsidian).

A lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, and frequent guest artist at the National Theatre School of Canada, Mike is a two-time Montreal English Theatre Award (META) recipient and
was the co-founding Artistic Director of Tableau D’Hôte Theatre and past Assistant Artistic Director for Black Theatre Workshop. He was also Artistic and Executive Director of Geordie Productions in Montreal before becoming Artistic Director for Tarragon Theatre in Toronto where he is currently based.