Miriam Buether

Miriam Buether is an award-winning stage designer working internationally in theatre, opera and dance. Originally from Berlin, she trained in theatre design at Central Saint Martin’s, London. Recent work includes Prima Facie (West End and Broadway), Patriots and Spring Awakening (Almeida), The 47th (Old Vic), To Kill a Mockingbird (Broadway, West End), The Jungle (Young Vic, West End, New York), Akram Khan’s The Jungle Book and Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only (Royal Court). Her opera work includes Boris Godunov, Anna Nicole, Suor Angelica and Aida (The Royal Opera), La fanciulla del West and Turandot (ENO) and The Sacrifice (WNO). She won The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 1999, is twice Tony nominated and received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London (NT) and Sucker Punch (Royal Court), and again in 2018 for The Jungle.