Miriam Ibrahim

The German-Ethiopian Miriam Ibrahim was born in 1981 in Stuttgart and began singing and acting already in school, alongside her passion for basketball. After graduating from high school, she attended the Stage School Hamburg, which she successfully completed in 2005 with a diploma in singing, acting, and dance. From 2005 to 2009, Miriam Ibrahim performed in various productions, including at Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater Bonn, and Theater an der Rott. Additionally, she taught acting at the Backstage Gruppe Hamburg and for BINI e.V. In 2009, Miriam Ibrahim moved to NYC and attended the Stella Adler Studio, where she graduated in acting in 2011. In the same year, she founded the association The Shades of Gray, with which she realized theater plays and performances such as «Sakharam Binder», «Wunschkonzert», «Sterntaler», and «Vestiges».

From 2013 to 2016, Miriam Ibrahim studied at the Free University Berlin and completed her Bachelor’s degree in theater studies and social/cultural anthropology. She interned at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin and the Stuttgart State Opera, assisted John Gould Rubin (NYC) and Armin Petras, before moving to the Münchner Kammerspiele as assistant director for the 2017–2019 seasons. There, she supervised works by Susanne Kennedy, Trajal Harrell, Amir Reza Koohestani, Marta Górnicka, Leonie Böhm, among others. At the MK, she realized various formats, workshops, and institutions such as the workshop «Safe Place and Theater», the opera «Lady Magnesia», a street performance «Speakers Corner Repeat», and the talk format «Tischszenen Reloaded».

In January 2020, Miriam Ibrahim directed a piece development at the Münchner Kammerspiele on the topic «Doing and Undoing Race»/«Identity-Making», and in 2021, with the Staatstheater Augsburg, she developed a piece on postcolonial relations titled «Klang des Regens» by Caren Jess. Afterwards, she was dramaturg and member of the artistic leadership at Theater Oberhausen, where she deepened her passion for additional formats and established the «Feministische Reihe», focusing on intersectionality. She then worked as dramaturg at Schauspielhaus Zürich, where she intensified her collaboration with Trajal Harrell and realized the new series «enterspaces» and «SHZ Lesereihe». As a director, she has worked at Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Dortmund, Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, Theater Münster, Nationaltheater Weimar, Bühnen Bern, and since autumn 2024 she has been leading Salon Ebony, a German-speaking Black theater creators’ network. Following «blues in schwarz weiss», «Rezitativ» after the story of the same name by Toni Morrison is her second work with the Residenztheater München in the 2025/2026 season.