Michael Seraphim's biography in the Twelfth Night programme states that he has been a lead singer with a number of bands and was one of the original roller-skating cast in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express. Prior to this Shakespeare play, he had worked with Black Theatre Co-Operative, the Upstream Children's Theatre and at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in the pantomime and performing at their Sunday Variety Nights.