Mike Alfreds

Mike Alfreds (born Michael Guy Alexander Alfreds in London on 5 June 1934) is an English theatre director, dramatist and playwright, who won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a British Theatre Managers Association award for Best Director. He has directed over 160 productions. He also was teaching at universities such as Tel Aviv University, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Northumbria University.

Michael Alfreds was born in London in 1934 as son of Jewish parents.

He studied dramatic arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in the United States. Afterwards he worked as stage director in the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and in the Theatre West in Tucson, Arizona. Back in Britain, he enrolled at LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London.

He directed plays in a number of theatres in UK and was artistic director of an ensemble at the National Theatre.

Alfreds had worked in many countries all over the world, such as Canada, Germany, Norway, China, Belarus, Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia and Israel.

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