Miranda Middleton

Miranda Middleton is an award-winning theatre-maker with a Master of Fine Arts (Directing) from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). She has been a MinterEllison Future Director at Melbourne Theatre Company and a recipient of the Sandra Bates Director’s Award at the Ensemble Theatre. Miranda was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Bright Star and a Green Room Award for Outstanding Direction of an Independent Musical for The Grinning Man.

Miranda’s most recent directing credits include: Paper Stars (British Youth Music Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bright Star (Sport for Jove Theatre Company); In Pieces (National Institute of Dramatic Art); Into the Woods (Elder Conservatorium of Music); In Her Own Words (Sydney Festival); The Grinning Man (VASS Productions/Salty Theatre); The Eisteddfod (Old Fitz Theatre); Not Today (Rogue Projects).

As Associate Director: My Brilliant Career (Melbourne Theatre Company/Sydney Theatre Company); King of Pangea (King’s Head Theatre, London). As Assistant Director: Candide (Opera Australia); The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare); Master Class, The Queen’s Nanny (Ensemble Theatre).

Miranda is delighted to direct her first opera for Pinchgut.