Miranda Cromwell

Miranda Cromwell is a British theatre director with particular interests in new writing, musicals and reinterpreting traditional material.^[1] She is one of only six women who have won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director.

Career

After a role at the Bristol Old Vic encouraging young talent her artistic breakthrough came with her co-direction of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic. This cast the Logan family as Black, taking a fresh view of the barriers to achieving the American Dream. She was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Director for this production (with co-director Marianne Elliott),

Bristol Old Vic

Miranda was Young Company Director at the Bristol Old Vic for seven years.^[2]

Bristol School of Acting

Miranda is co-artistic director at the Bristol School of Acting^[3]

Chichester Festival Theatre

She is co-Artistic director at the Chichester Festival Theatre^[4]

National Theatre

She is a Artistic Associate at the National Theatre, where she works with other Associates to shape the creative vision.^[5]

Works

• 2019 Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic - Director^[6]
• 2021 Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock at the Dorfman Theatre about the Atlantic slave trade^[7]
• 2021 and breathe... at the Almeida Theatre^[8]. Director.^[9]
• 2021 This is a Love Story at the Dundee Rep.
• 2023 The Beekeeper of Aleppo at the Nottingham Playhouse^[10]

Awards

• Nominated, with Marianne Elliott for Milton Shulman Award for Best Director at the 65th Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2019
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival and Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director in 2020 for Death of a Salesman
• Best Director for a Play or Musical for and breathe at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards