MIRANDA ROSE HALL

Miranda Rose Hall (she/her) is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY.

Her plays include Work of Devotion, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (finalist for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, commissioned by LubDub Theatre Co), The Sandwich Ministry, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Drama), To Tell a Story About the Earth, The Kind Ones, and Menstruation: A Period Piece. She has written for television on Discretion (Upcoming Paramount+), Alaska Daily (ABC) and American Rust (Amazon Prime). She has developed pilots with A24, Fifth Season, FX, Middle Child Productions, and Emmy Rossum’s Composition8.

In North America, Miranda’s work has been produced by theaters including LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in New York, Baltimore Center Stage, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and Centaur Theatre in Montreal. She has written commissioned works for Yale Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons Soundstage, Baltimore Center Stage, Concord Theatricals, and LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater as a Berwin Lee New York London Commissioned Playwright. In 2020, she was honored with a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction toured internationally from 2021-2025 as part of the Sustainable Theatre? project created by British director Katie Mitchell and Théâtre Vidy in Lausanne, Switzerland.

It traveled to Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Dramaten in Stockholm, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Théâtre de Liège, MC93 in France, and the National Performing Arts Center in Taipei among other venues. It toured in the UK in spring and summer 2023, produced by Headlong Theatre, beginning at the Barbican in London, and traveling to Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, Shakespeare North in Prescot, New Vic in Newcastle, and Theatre Royal in Plymouth.

In addition to writing, Miranda is a founding member and artistic leader of LubDub Theatre Co, based in New York.

She has taught writing and literature courses at Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, and Macalester College. Her essays about theater have been published by 3Views on Theatre and HowlRound.

Miranda grew up in Baltimore, MD. She graduated with her BA from Georgetown University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.