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 Kyoto (Royal Shakespeare Company), Stranger Things: The First Shadow (West End), 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 Aida, Boris Godunov, Anna Nicole and Suor Angelica (The Royal Opera), The Dead City (Die Tote Stadt), La fanciulla del West and Turandot (English National Opera) and The Sacrifice (Welsh National Opera). In 2024 she won the Olivier Award for Best Set Design and the Critics’ Circle Award for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. She received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London (National Theatre) and Sucker Punch (Royal Court), and again in 2018 for The Jungle.