Michael Rudman has three children. With his first wife, Veronica Bennett he had two daughters, Amanda and Katherine Rudman. He was later married to Felicity Kendal from 1983 to 1994.

They had one son together, Jacob Rudman. They parted in 1991 and divorced in 1994 but in 1998, the partnership between them resumed. There isn’t much information about Michael Rudman’s children on the internet.

From 1992 to 1994, he was the artistic director of the Crucible Theatre as the director for the 1990 season. From 1992 to 1994, he was the artistic director of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Rudman won the Drama Desk Award for The Changing Room at the Morosco Theatre and directed Hamlet in Central Park and at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Centre, New York.