Michael McDonald was nominated for a TONY and Drama Desk award for his work on the 2009, 40th Anniversary, Broadway Revival of HAIR.

Off-Broadway: Tartuffe (Tribeca Playhouse), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (Expand Arts), Regional: Take Me Out (Repertory Theatre of St Louis); Dirty Blonde, Ominum Gatherum and Crowns (Zachary Scott Theatre); Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Laramie Project, Angels in America (Chatham Playhouse). On Broadway he was assistant costume designer for two Tony award-winning Best Plays-The Goat and Take Me Out, as well as Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt Morgan. Costume painting for productions including The Seagull, Mother Courage and Her Children starring Meryl Streep; Radiant Baby; Caroline or Change; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog. He is the Assistant Costume Master for the Public Theater.