Danyah Miller News

Award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller brings her acclaimed production of I Believe in Unicorns, based on former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling story, to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.

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A new show for young children featuring the famous walrus which visited Scarborough last Christmas has been announced alongside a season of visiting shows at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller has announced a unique Gala Performance of her acclaimed production of I Believe in Unicorns, based on the story by the best-selling children's author Michael Morpurgo, to celebrate The Reading Agency's 21st birthday.

Wizard Presents' Meet Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking – a playful and quirky one-woman storytelling performance inspired by Astrid Lindgren's most famous literary creation – will be one of only a handful of children's shows heading to the Edinburgh Fringe this August.

Following the storyline of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, The Secret Garden Experience starts when a 'Secret Box' arrives in the post. Each box contains eight envelopes with eight unique audio episodes and accompanying activities.

Watford Palace Theatre is about to reopen and has used the lockdown as an opportunity to build exciting new collaborations and fresh thinking, bringing the company back bigger and better than ever.

Wizard Presents is creating 2,000 special Secret Garden boxes filled with surprises, activities and the well-loved story of 10 year old Mary Lennox leaving India and coming to the UK to live with her uncle on the Yorkshire moors.

Surrey-based, International Storyteller and writer, Danyah Miller has created four new tales inspired by her own childhood for the Yorkshire Festival of Story running online throughout August.

Wizard Presents are hosting a month of birthday celebrations to stimulate, inspire and bring together families online.

A new batch of Fringe favourites, including Paul Merton, NewsRevue and Wizard Presents, are now on-sale as they get ready to take to Pleasance's stages this summer.

BWW catches up with Danyah Miller to chat about bringing Michael Morpurgo's I Believe in Unicorns to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Following its box office success and critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, award-winning storyteller, Danyah Miller presents a UK tour of Perfectly Imperfect Women this Autumn. The tour starts on Monday 1st October at Oxford Playhouse and ends on Tuesday 16th October at Komedia Brighton.

Danyah Miller guest blogs for BroadwayWorld ahead of taking Kika's Birthday to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Danish Miller blogs for BroadwayWorld to give us an insight into a day performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Multi-award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller's Perfectly Imperfect Women, part of Ovalhouse's imaginative and innovative Spring Season 2017, has been created to celebrate International Women's Day 2017 on Wednesday 8th March.

For their spring season 2017, Ovalhouse have returned to their roots of home-grown talent, staging urgent, radical theatre that continues to inspire. This will be Owen Calvert-Lyon's first major season as Head of Theatre and Artist Development at Ovalhouse - London's longest serving commissioning theatre.

Ovalhouse will conclude their powerful winter season with Why The Whales Came - an enchanting tale by one of the UK's best-loved storytellers, Michael Morpurgo. Fresh from a highly successful autumn tour, this magical family show is full of fun, mystery and adventure.

Southbank Centre presents a host of exclusive UK premieres from across the world exploring diversity, identity, migration, evolution and sacrifice, for its Spring & Summer 2017 programme for performance, dance and theatre.

Southbank Centre's Imagine Children's Festival returns from 9 - 19 February 2017, taking over the Royal Festival Hall during half term with a packed programme of events including dance, music, theatre and installations, alongside readings and workshops with some of the top children's authors from the UK and Nordic region.