Miriam (she/her) is the Literary Manager at the Tony Award–winning off-Broadway company Vineyard Theatre and has over 25 years of experience as a freelance director and dramaturg. Miriam's podcast "Theater Practice" (theaterpractice.com), now in its third season, is a place where guests practice how to be more mindful audience members one show at a time. Under the Weather, a climate-comedy web series that Miriam co-wrote and directed, won Best Screenplay Award at the Brooklyn Web Festival and has screened around the world from Germany to Sicily. Miriam has served as a festival dramaturge at The Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Festival as well as the Norman Festival of New Work at Juilliard. She has been a reader for The Horton Foote Prize, The Yale Musical Theatre Workshop, The Jewish Plays Project, and The Princess Grace Awards. She holds an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College and a BA from Brandeis University. She is currently a professor at the Tepper Semester, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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”I’ve had the great good fortune to lean on the expertise of Miriam Weiner for a range of professional projects. Miriam’s dramaturgical skills are second to none. She is able to mine, with total ease, the structural underpinnings, creative core, and artistic intent of any piece of work placed in front of her. Most importantly she has the ability to bring to the fore the beating heart at the center of a work of art, acting as a reminder as to why it all matters in the first place.”
— Welker White, actor and founder of The Moving Frame

“I had the pleasure to work with Miriam on a digital short project Under the Weather. We were brought together by serendipity and our mutual passion to prevent global climate change. Miriam was the original creator, but she treated me as a full writing partner. Miriam brought her intense passion, enthusiasm for the artistic process, and a galvanizing energy. She welcomed all ideas, willing to go down any creative path to see where it led, while also demonstrating her discerning taste and professional experience, producing a work of which we are both extremely proud. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Miriam again.”
— Katie Sammis, author