Border Crossings creates new intercultural, multi-media theatre in response to the contemporary globalised world. The company works across the borders between cultures and art forms, and between nations and peoples. Since 1995, Border Crossings has collaborated with artists and companies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Mauritius, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sweden, the USA and Zimbabwe, as well as the diverse communities of the UK. Border Crossings productions have toured the UK, Brazil, Egypt, France, Hungary, India, Mauritius, Mexico, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe. In 2019, Border Crossings established its sister organisation in the Irish Republic.

Michael is also a freelance director of theatre and opera, and the Director of the Origins Festival of First Nations