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Delighted to be directing STEEL MAGNOLIAS
at Cinnabar Theater running February 14- 23, 2025!
Effervescent and hilarious— but still managing to drop a plumb line
into the very heart of being human— Steel Magnolias is eminently true to the power of a community of women, especially that of mothers and daughters.
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Currently on faculty at The Actors Conservatory at Las Positas College teaching Voice & Speech, Movement, Shakespeare through Performance, and Advanced Acting since Fall 2021.

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"The remarkable Ani is perfection in the crucial role of Catherine... this is really Ani's show."
"Miriam Ani delivers an incredible performance as Catherine Sloper."
- Broadway World
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"Miriam Nehama Ani as Catherine Sloper will literally blow you away... As the play unfolds, we see a transformation unlike any I have ever seen. Multifaceted, and layered in attitude, tone, psychology, Ani's whole being takes us, the audience, on a very personal, and at times painful, journey... I have never been taken that close to a character's soul."
- Peter Bliznick, Executive Director, Palo Alto Players
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it's easy to get stuck in the daily mire
but self evolution is what it's all about.
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the inquiry into who we could be
who we already are.
finding new ways of being
is just about expanding your palette
even when trying more
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* Directed new work Burden by Liz Gjelten
for 3GirlsTheatre Salon Reading Series:
family trauma, ex drama,
racial politics, & puppets... o my!
* Delighted to step into the cast of Lynn
Nottage's gorgeous Intimate Apparel
with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
playing Mrs. Van Buren... see you at


* Over the moon to be working alongside these
powerhouse women on a France-Luce Benson
original for Together LA: Virtual Theatre
* What a joy to serve as a voice and text coach for
African-American Shakespeare Company's upcoming
production of Othello, opening October 12, 2019!
* On tour with the San Francisco Shakespeare
Festival's The Comedy of Errors playing
through April 2019.
* Delighted to join the Lorraine Hansberry
Theatre with the world premiere of The Urban
* Understudying Margaret d'Anjou/ Queen Margaret
for Cal Shakes' War of the Roses from William Shakespeare's
Henry VI trilogy and Richard III, running August 23- Sept 15, 2018.
* Miriam directs the critically acclaimed Crucible May- June 2018 at Pacifica Spindrift Players:
"Miriam Ani's presentation of [The Crucible] is a seat for our times at the thoughtful brink of a cliff..."

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"...director Miriam Ani has [... ] a real understanding of how to shake an audience up with a story that we think we know..."
"...deeply well done..."
-The Pacifica Tribune
* Joined the Westons as Karen in August: Osage County
with Novato Theater Company which ran May 18th-
June 4th, 2017. TBA Recommended Production.
* Directed The Hallelujah Girls for North Bay Stage
Company March- April 2016. Press release.
* Played Irina in Three Sisters at Douglas Morrison
Theatre in Hayward Feb- March 2015.
* 2016 was a very villainous summer of Shakespeare...
First off as Sébastienne in Livermore Shakespeare
Festival's The Tempest, and then as Lady Macbeth with
* Summer 2015 visited STAGEStheatre in LA originating the
lead in the West Coast Premiere of Jim Knable's marvelous
new play Green Man.
* Makes her Bay Area theatre debut as Catherine Sloper
in The Heiress at Palo Alto Players, Jan- Feb 2014.