Miriam Higgins

Miriam Higgins (she/her) is a neurodivergent director and playwright. University training was in music and that is how she approaches everything and this comes through in her direction and writing. A collaborative director who produces uncluttered, witty, twisted and often dark stories where character, story, sound, and clarity is put above all.

Credits

DIRECTOR, The Soldier's Tale, Turner Sims Concert Hall, 2 performances, 2021
DIRECTOR and PLAYWRIGHT, Mercutio and Tybalt by Miriam Higgins, Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford, 1 week, 2019
DIRECTOR and PLAYWRIGHT, Dreamscape, Old Fire Station, Oxford, and Old Clubhouse, Buxton, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR, The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit, UK Tour, 12 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR and PLAYWRIGHT, Mercutio and Tybalt by Miriam Higgins, Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford, and Hedley Palin Studio, Macclesfield, 1 week, 2017
DIRECTOR, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Oxford University Press Quadrangle, Oxford, 1 week, 2016
DIRECTOR, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Corn Exchange, Witney, 1 week, 2015
DIRECTOR, Contractions by Mike Bartlett, Old Fire Station, Oxford, 1 week, 2014
DIRECTOR, Condemned to Live by Heather Dunmore, Old Fire Station, Oxford, 1 week, 2013
DIRECTOR, The Lover by Harold Pinter, Old Fire Station, Oxford, 1 week, 2013

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Deathtrap by Ira Levin, Salisbury Playhouse, 4 weeks, 2016, director Adam Penford
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Romeo & Juliet: Unzipped written and adapted by Mark Powell, Salisbury Playhouse, and The Egg, Bath, 2 weeks, 2014, director Mark Powell
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson, Hull Truck Theatre, 4 weeks, 2014, director Natalie Abrahami
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Aladdin by Lizzie Hopley, The North Wall, 4 weeks, 2012, director Charlotte Conquest
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, 8 weeks, 2012, director Natalie Abrahami

Training

Attended courses and workshops run by:
Young Vic
Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre503
Graeae
JMK Trust
RTDYS
Oxfordshire Theatre Makers
Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford