Michelle Urbano

Michelle Urbano is a Toronto-based theatre creator, and the Artistic Director of Crossroads Theatre. This July, she will be the Director of Puppetry in Crossroads Theatre’s Through the Bamboo. She completed a 2024 TAPA RBC Emerging Artist Mentorship with Allan MacInnis. She is currently working as Director of Puppetry for the re-imagining of Through the Bamboo at Crossroads for a 2026 summer production. Formerly co-Artistic Director of puppetry company Artichoke Heart and artist-in-residence at Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. Recent credits includePhantasmagoria 3D (Eldritch Theatre), WeeFestival (Quest for the Moon, Old Man and the River, Lost & Found). She has worked as a puppeteer with the CBC, Theatre Passe Muraille, Pandemic Theatre, Caterwaul Theatre, and the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and has contributed to award-winning puppetry productions at Fringe and SummerWorks. She was recognized in 2017 by Cahoots Theatre as one of their “30 for 30” - 30 artists shaping the next 30 years of Toronto theatre.

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