Miriam Laube

Miriam A. Laube is a first-generation American actor, director, and producer who was born and raised in Pittsburgh. Her recent directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Queen at Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and The Tempest at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. For 16 seasons, Laube was an actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she worked with an extraordinary company of artists. Her favorite roles include the Shakespeare heroines Cleopatra, Olivia, Hermione, Rosalind, and Julia; the Witch in Into the Woods; and Vasantasena in The Clay Cart. She is proud to have originated the roles of Gynecia in Head Over Heels and Cleo in Family Album. Additionally, she served as a Development Consultant at OSF, curating and hosting a biweekly interview series. Laube has worked on Broadway in Bombay Dreams and Off-Broadway at the Public Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, 59E59 Theaters, and the Ensemble Studio Theater. She has worked regionally at Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, and the Guthrie Theater. She received a Henry Award for best supporting actress for her work in the original production of The Book of Will at the Denver Center. Laube also served as the senior producer for the first season of the Next Chapter Podcasts Play on Podcasts series, producing audio productions of Macbeth, Pericles, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, King Lear, and Twelfth Night. Honored to be both a Fox Fellow and a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, she sits on the board of the Ashland New Plays Festival and Play on Shakespeare. In the fall, Laube will originate the role of Penelope in the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Janiead for the Alley Theatre in Houston.