- Stage: Directed the original Broadway production of "The Family Way".
- (1954) Stage Play: The Tender Trap. Written by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith. Directed by Michael Gordon. Longacre Theatre: 13 Oct 1954- 8 Jan 1955 (102 performances). Cast: Ronny Graham (as "Charlie Reader"), Kim Hunter (as "Sylvia Crewes"), Robert Preston (as "Joe McCall"), Joey Faye (as "Sol Schwartz"), Jack Manning (as "Earl Lindquist"), Parker McCormick (as "Poppy Matson"), Julia Meade (as "Jessica Collins") [Broadway debut], Janet Riley (as "Julie Gillis'). Produced by Clinton Wilder. Note: Filmed as The Tender Trap (1955).
- (1945) Stage: Directed the original Broadway production of Arthur Laurents' "Home of the Brave" that ran at the Belasco Theatre for 69 performances and starred Russell Hardie and Joseph Pevney. Produced by blacklisted Lee Sabinson.
- Stage: Was the lighting designer for the original Broadway production of "Thunder Rock".
- (1952) Stage Play: See the Jaguar. Written by N. Richard Nash. Incidental music by Alec Wilder [final Broadway credit]. Choreographed by Joe Layton. Directed by Michael Gordon. Cort Theatre: 3 Dec 1952- 8 Dec 1952 (5 performances). Cast: Margaret Barker, Arthur Batanides, Harry Bergman, David Clarke, James Dean (as "Wally Wilkins") [Broadway debut], Harrison Dowd, Roy Fant (as "Gramfa Ricks"), Constance Ford (as "Janna"), Ted Jacques (as "Meeker"), Arthur Kennedy (as "Dave Ricks"), Dane Knell, Tony Kraber (as "Carson"), Phillip Pine, Cameron Prud'homme, Florence Sundstrom (as "Mrs. Meeker"), George Tyne (as "Harvey"). Produced by Lemuel Ayers. Produced in association with Helen Jacobson.
- The Male Animal (1952). Comedy. Written by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. Artistic Supervisor: George Schaefer. Scenic Design by Melvin Bourne. Costume Design by Noel Taylor. Directed by Michael Gordon. Music Box Theatre: 15 May 1952- 31 Jan 1953 (317 performances). Cast: Elliott Nugent (as "Tommy Turner"), Robert Preston (as "Joe Ferguson"), Martha Scott (as "Ellen Turner"), Dorothy Blackburn (as "Myrtle Keller"), Charles Boaz (as "Wally Myers"), Matt Briggs (as "Ed Keller"), John Gerstad (as "Michael Barnes"), Peter Harris (as "Newspaper Reporter"), Halliwell Hobbes (as "Dean Frederick Damon"), Billy James (as "Nutsy Miller"), Eulabelle Moore (as "Cleota"), Nancy Nugent (as "Patricia Stanley"), Leora Thatcher (as "Mrs. Blanche Damon"). Produced by John Golden. Note: Theatre Owned and operated by Irving Berlin and Lee Shubert.
- Storm Operation (1944). Drama. Written by Maxwell Anderson. Scenic Design by Howard Bay. Costume Design by Rose Bogdanoff. Lighting Design by Moe Hack. Directed by Michael Gordon. Belasco Theatre: 11 Jan 1944- 29 Jan 1949 (23 performances). Cast: Michael Ames (as "Dougie"), Sara Anderson (as "Mabroukha"), Marianne Bier (as "Arab Woman"), Nick Dennis (as "Squillini"), Maurice Doner (as "Bread Seller/Arab Guide"), Joseph Dorn (as "Abe"), Charles Ellis (as "Chuck, a Technical Sgt."), Louis Fabien (as "Corp. Hermann Geist"), Bramwell Fletcher (as "Capt. Sutton"), Dorothea Freed (as "Lt. Kathryn Byrne"), Cy Howard (as "Simeon, a Technical Sgt"), Elizabeth Inglise (as "Arab Woman"), Walter Kohler (as "Lt. Dammartin"), Myron McCormick (as "1st Sgt. Peter Moldau"), Millard Mitchell (as "Mart, a Technical Sgt"), Gertrude Musgrove (as "Lt. Thomasina Grey"), Julie O'Brien (as "Arab Woman"), Carlo Respighi (as "Stefano"), Alan Schneider (as "Winkle"), Nehem Simone (as "The Muezzin"), Bertram Tanswell (as "Corp. Ticker"), Neil Towner (as "Arab Boy"), Lela Vanti (as "Arab Woman"). Produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard).
- (March 22, 1954) He directed Julian Funt's play, "The Magic and the Loss," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Uta Hagen, Robert Preston, Lee Bowman, Edith Meiser, Charles Taylor, and Danny Dennis in the cast. Ralph Alswang was set designer. Jocelyn was costume designer. Alexander H. Cohen and Ralph Alswang were producers.
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