Miriam Unterthiner, born in Italy in 1994, grew up on the outskirts of a small mountain village in South Tyrol and now lives in Vienna. She spent her youth on the handball courts of Italy. She went on to study Philosophy (BA), German Studies (BA, MA) and Scenic Writing at Drama Forum and Language Arts (MA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Miriam has received scholarships from the Austrian Federal Government, the Wiener Wortstaetten and the Summer School Südtirol, among others, and was invited to the Treffen junger Autor:innen at Schauspielhaus Leipzig.
Her play “Va†erzunge” was developed within the course of the Drama Lab and was published in book form as part of Edition Goldstück. The play will premiere at the Tiroler Landestheater in May 2025 (director: Blanka Rádóczy). Miriam was also nominated for the Heidelberger Stücke Markt 2023 author competition with this play.
“Blutbrot” is Miriam’s graduation project for the Sprachkunst-Stuidum. The text was awarded the Kleist Prize for New Drama and the Literature Prize of the University of Innsbruck in 2025. The play will be premiere at Theater Aachen in September 2025 (director: Jakob Weiss). In February 2025, the text was also published in printed form by edition laurin, innsbruck university press.
She was also a Hans Gratzer scholarship holder of the Schauspielhaus Wien in 2025 with the play draft “Mundtot”, which was awarded the Hans Gratzer Prize 2025. The play will premiere in January 2026 at the Schauspielhaus Wien.
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