Miriam Fernandes

Miriam Fernandes is the Co-Artistic Director of the Toronto-based company Why Not Theatre and has worked as an actor, director and theatre-maker around the world.

As a director, her work includes Metamorphoses (University of Toronto’s Drama Centre), Hayavadana (Soulpepper Theatre), Nesen (MiniMidiMaxi Festival, Norway) and The First Time I Saw the Sea (YVA Company, Norway).

As a creator, she is currently co-writing/adapting for the stage the ancient epic, Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre/Shaw Festival), developing a Deaf/hearing production of Lady Macbeth (in partnership with 1S1 Collective), and is a co-writer and performer in What You Won’t Do for Love with Drs. David Suzuki and Tara Cullis.

Miriam has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, and is a graduate of Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She is the recipient of the JBC Watkins Award and was nominated for the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize.