A bit about me

Hi, I’m Miranda Martini.

I’m a multidisciplinary artist, with extensive credits as a musician, writer and composer. 

Currently I’m best known for my sound-based art, particularly as a composer, sound designer, music director, and music dramaturg for theatre. I co-wrote music for “John Ware Reimagined,” a musical about the life and impact of Alberta cowboy John Ware, which enjoyed its third production at the Blyth Theatre Festival in 2022. My face and voice can also be seen and heard in the NFB documentary "John Ware Reclaimed." In 2023 I directed music for two Betty Mitchell Award-nominated productions: “Countries Shaped Like Stars” with Lunchbox Theatre, nominated for Outstanding Musical Direction, and “We’re Gonna Die” with Verb Theatre, which won for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical. In September 2024, I designed sound for the world premiere of “Static: A Party Girl’s Memoirs” with Chromatic Theatre and Inside Out Theatre.

My nonfiction writing can frequently be found in publications like The Sprawl and Alberta Views, as well as in the anthologies The Black Prairie Archives (Wilfried Laurier University Press) and Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications). I also write fiction: I’m currently writing a young adult historical novel with my mother, author and historian Cheryl Foggo, and my interactive story “Heartbreak Speedrun,” a dating sim set in downtown Calgary, was selected to be part of the Story City x Calgary Downtown collection and can be played now on the Story City app.

I’m happiest when I’m creating and thinking about art in community with artists, particularly other queer artists of colour. In 2021 and 2022, I was one of 10 artists that participated in the Femme Wave Community Transformation Workshop, a caucused space centring the perspectives, agency and self-determinacy of 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous, Black and racialized artists within Femme Wave’s ongoing process of transformation.