Miranda ADEkoje, Playwright
Miranda Austen ADEkoje
Playwright: I Am This Place and Suffrage in Black & White: A New Era
Miranda Austen ADEkoje is a writer for stage and screen, producer and actress. She attended Brown University where she graduated with a B.A. in literature and cultures in English, after which she trained in London at the Rose Bruford college for Drama and received a Master’s degree with Distinction in Theatre Practices. Her plays include The Come Up (BTM 2021), In any Face (Lyric Stage Walking Plays), Keyp-ing (New Rep Showstopper Series), Virtual Attendance (Huntington Theatre Dream Boston Audio play series) I Am This Place (Plays in Place/Revolutionary Spaces), Shelter of Last Resort (Front Porch Arts Collective Summer reading series, The Huntington Theatre Breaking Ground Reading Series, Company One XX PlayLab), 36 Days (Apollinaire Theatre New Play Night reading, Bob Jolly Fellowship Reading Series, Emerson College Student Workshop), The Strongest Shape (Paines Plough Future Perfect Finalist), Reply Please, Requests and Sugar Moth. Mrs. ADEkoje’s screen work includes Little Eyes (48-hour film festival semi-finalist), The Last Shot, Red Monster, and she was a member of the writing team for the webseries ByChance, and The Halls seasons 1 and 2.
Mrs. Adekoje has performed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Theatre Royal Stratford as well as being named the Farrago Central London Slam Poet champion. Stateside, Mrs. ADEkoje was a Playwright Fellow at the Tony award-winning Huntington Theatre and is currently a member of the MUTT play writing collective. Mrs. ADEkoje is an award-winning actress whose credits include Valerie in the world premier of Lydia Diamond’s Smart People for which she won an IRNE for best supporting actress in a large Production (The Huntington Theatre) and The Brother/Sister Plays (IRNE Award for Best Ensemble). In addition to playwriting, Mrs. ADEkoje is currently an Executive Producer and writer for the Boston-based Production company,
Beyond MEASURE Productions. www.beyondmeasureproductions.com