She won the TMA and Time Out awards in 1999 for Best Actress for her performances in I Weep At My Piano, Mr Puntila and The Dispute.
Later, Carmichael spoke of her frustration with the production, "we would work four scenes, then not know where to go, and we kept getting to dead ends and buggering off to the pub, thinking, 'what do we do now?
[3] In the latter half of the 90s, Carmichael played an upper class girl besotted with her chauffeur in The Right Size' production Kathryn Hunter's Mr Puntila and his Man Matti.
[4] Carmichael then performed I Weep at my Piano with her theatre troupe as part of the London International Mime Festival.
[6] Here Be Lions (French text by Stéphane Olry/La Revue Eclair Paris, English translation by Neil Bartlett).