Michael Mayer (born June 27, 1960) is a Tony Award-winning American stage and film director.

Michael Mayer was born and brought up in the clean air of the Black Forest, deep in Germany’s south-west corner. The days and nights of his childhood were filled with music, either liberated from his parents’ collection, absorbed via his bedside radio or tentatively played on the household’s piano. He first heard DJs at youth discos and was smitten, immediately beginning his own record collection - Italian disco, the Pet Shop Boys, extended 12” mixes of pop tracks and classic funk are it