A Guildhall graduate and an Olivier Award winner Mikes work thankfully takes him all over the world designing lighting for plays, musicals, opera's and concerts together with events, architecture and special projects. He has many credits in the West End, New York, on tour and in regional rep. On foreign shores his lighting appears in Mexico, France, Monaco, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, Macau, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Cuba and the USA.

In the theatre recently acclaim came for Soft Landing, Daisy Pulls It Off, Sult1, A Christmas Carol, Fascinating Aida, The Philanthropist, Honeymoon In Vegas, Monstrous Bodies, The Owl & The Pussycat, A Princess Undone, Much Ado About Nothing and classics State Fair, When We Were Women, Art, The Sisterhood, Great Expectations and Toast together with new plays The Odyssey - Missing Presumed Dead, Go See and Propaganda Swing.

Outside of the theatre his team have lit hundreds of concerts, conferences, parties, private events, nightclubs and even designed the interior lighting for Aircraft including tthe Airbus A380. He created the popular New Colour Blue series for Lee Filters and one of them is immodestly named after him!