Michael Buffong Lear, All My Sons, Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, God's Property, The Serpent's Tooth and Passing Wind. He has also been particularly associated with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester where he has directed at least five plays. Buffong also directed Lenny Henry and Lashana Lynch in the Willy Russell play Educating Rita at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2015. His film and television credits include Holby City, EastEnders, Admin, Placebo, Calais Rules, Doctors, Casualty and Comedy Shuffle (BBC), Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures), Feeling It (Eye2Eye) and Blazed (Channel4). He has also written and directed the award-winning short film Simple! (Acapulco
Educating Rita relationships. The play borrows from the George Bernard Shaw play "Pygmalion", itself based upon archetypes from Greek myth. The play was adapted by Russell for a 1983 film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters, directed by Lewis Gilbert. The play was adapted by Russell for radio in 2009 – see "Educating Rita (radio play)". It starred Bill Nighy and Laura Dos Santos directed by Kirsty Williams, and was a 90-minute play broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day 2009. From June–July 2001, the Williamstown Theatre Festival mounted a production of Educating Rita at the Nikos Stage starring Jacqueline McKenzie