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Opening pathways to the self

through the body, breath, voice, and

intention in the

San Francisco

Bay Area.

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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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Buy tickets HERE.

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."

- San Jose Mercury News

 

"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
is actually about trying less.

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it's not therapy
but it's close.

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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 

   The Magic!

  

* Over the moon to be working alongside these

  powerhouse women on a France-Luce Benson

  original for Together LA: Virtual Theatre

  Festival.

* 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

   Retreat, March 22- April 6, 2019. Read more here.

* 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..."

© Bella Tapia

"...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

   Half Moon Bay Shakespeare!

* 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.

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