About Miranda
i use research, lived experience & palpable aspects of the human condition to create my work
a synopsis
As Miranda types this, they just submitted their Connections/Strands/Wordle score to their four (yes, four) NYT Games group chats. A 3/6 kinda wordler and 10/10 lover of Kurt Vonnegut, objects that fit perfectly in the palm of a hand and striped turtlenecks, Miranda is proud to exist on the most lowbrow to highbrow spectrum of creative inspirations imaginable.
Get Miranda to talk about Big Brother and that will lead to Brechtian models of performance. Microwave grilled cheese to menippean satire. The history of alliteration to the aesthetics of degenerate art. This hyperbolic sense of taste started in the city everyone loves to hate—Miranda's hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. After being inspired by Zoey 101, Miranda attended boarding school where they discovered their love of comedy and performance.
Miranda didn't want the Good Times™ to end so they continued their buffoonery at Wesleyan University. Highlights include starting a two person band called "We Didn't Have Dinner,” choreographing 60 dancers all dressed as beans and being a very in demand nude model. Miranda has somehow congealed all these antics into a career that spans across theater, performance art, opera and film.
Their work has been recognized by the Princess Grace Awards, Whitney Biennial and, most importantly, by Nana Haymon who proudly brags that her grandchild directed a Dunkin' commercial, which, if you're from Massachusetts, is truly the stuff of dreams.
Credit: Ella Pennington
what i write in grants
My work is imaginative, intuitively political and bold. I dismantle the antiquated ideology of the white, cis, straight, male, able-bodied, middle class individual as the stand in for ‘universal’. I do this through a combination of sonic, physical, and visual languages to drive the work forward, focusing on embodied storytelling to create a visceral encounter with a theme, character or narrative. The art I make is radically inclusive, fundamentally multi-voiced, oriented towards sparking dialogue and in direct conversation with the current American state of affairs.
and the formal bio
Miranda Haymon is a Princess Grace Award winning director and writer originally from Boston. As a theater director, Miranda has developed and staged work with The Tank, NYTW, Roundabout, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, Bushwick Starr, Signature Theater and more. Miranda has served as Visiting Faculty at Fordham, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan, Rutgers and Harvard. Past fellowships/residencies include New Georges, Space on Ryder Farm, LCT Director’s Lab, Wingspace, NYTW 2050, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club and Arena Stage. Currently, Miranda is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company.
In the brand sphere, Miranda has directed commercials with e.l.f, Progressive, Gucci, Garage Magazine, Dunkin’ and Spectrum.
As a writer, Miranda most recently wrote Dylan Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood Live!” from the Rainbow Room.
You can also find Miranda collaborating with their alter ego, bb brecht.
Miranda is a graduate of Wesleyan University where they double majored in German Studies and Theater and were awarded the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize in Directing.
fun facts
Miranda loves Settlers of Catan, ugly sweaters, and pretending that they're not lactose intolerant so they can eat grilled cheese. They are a Virgo, aspiring florist and pretty good at driving stick shift.
