Michelle Riley is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End producer, recognized for Hadestown (2019 Tony Award, Best Musical) and Once On This Island (2018 Tony Award, Best Musical Revival). Since 2016, she has produced and invested in productions across Broadway, the West End, and national and international tours, with a growing slate of upcoming and current work on both sides of the Atlantic.

Alongside her work in theatre, Michelle serves as Chief Legal Officer of Bregal Investments, a multi-strategy international private equity group with more than €24 billion in assets under management, and as General Counsel of Bregal Sagemount, a private equity firm that collaborates with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth and create value. She holds a JD from Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and a Truman Scholar; an MA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Pembroke College, Oxford University, where she was a Shapiro Scholar; and a BA, magna cum laude, in Political Communication from The George Washington University, where she was a National Merit Scholar.

Michelle is a proud supporter of New York’s non-profit theatre community. Since 2019, she has served on the board of WP Theater, now in its 48th Season and the nation’s oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of Women+ at every stage in their careers. She also serves as Immediate Past Chair on the board of Lambda Legal, an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) through impact litigation, societal education, and public policy work, where she was Chair of the Board from 2024–2026 and Vice Chair from 2022–2024.

Michelle divides her time among New York City, London, West Palm Beach, Haarlem, Netherlands, Trancoso, Brazil, and Crete.