Miranda Martini is a multidisciplinary artist, with extensive credits as a musician, writer and composer.
Recent sound credits include “Static: A Party Girl’s Memoirs” (Inside Out and Chromatic Theatre), “Beyond the Sea” (Lunchbox Theatre), “Liars at a Funeral” (Alberta Theatre Projects) and “The Verdict” (Vertigo Theatre).
Miranda’s recent solo album, The Historian, freely blends bluegrass and soul, paying tribute to her Black prairie ancestors in Maidstone and Campsie. The album was featured on the CBC Radio show Key of A as part of their "Best of 2025" episode, showcasing the best new music out of Alberta last year. The album also charted at #8 on CJSW Folk/Country/Blues charts for 2025, and was featured in the Alberta Views Magazine 2026 Albums Guide.
When she’s not designing, performing or making sounds, Miranda is either working on her novel (a middle-grade train mystery she's co-writing with her mother) or her musical (a sci-fi space opera).
Selected Works
Film + Television
Music
Theatre
Writing
Sound
Film Reel
Check out some of my credits composing for film.
My Favourite Things
From a performance at New Moon Folk Club in Edmonton.
Balcony
By Miranda Martini
Bernice the pigeon processes the loss of her first brood in this small urban story about grief, housing insecurity, and the complicated relationships between neighbours.
In first iteration of this show, I used a decorative birdcage to build Bernice’s balcony roost, highlighting the porous relationship between indoor and outdoor, pet and vermin, neighbour and wild animal.
Static
By Ashley King
September 4-14, 2024
“Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir” is a coming-of-age story inspired by true events, written and performed by Mexican-Canadian artist Ashley King. It follows Ashley, a young woman whose life revolves around booze, boys, and late-night parties, while navigating a turbulent relationship with her mother, Carolina. But when she wakes up blind while on holiday, she’ll have to face her darkest depths of grieving a new life she didn’t choose or want. Not your typical inspirational story, Static offers a poignant and humorous take on the struggles and triumphs of a young woman learning to navigate the world without sight. With moments of laughter and tears, this dark comedy explores whether everything happens for a reason and if joy can really be found in unexpected places.
Sound Designer • Miranda Martini
Countries Shaped Like Stars
By Emily Pearlman and Nick Di Gaetano
March 21-April 8, 2023
A musical love story for adults, teens and precocious children, Gwendolyn Magnificent and Bartholomew Spectacular use a tin-can telephone to share their whimsical story. The performance begins with demanding dragon fruits and ends with heartache whispered into the ears of birds and constellations. With spoons, water glasses, whirly-winds and a mandolin, the performers create the sounds and images of a landscape forever altered by two people coming together and falling apart. A new production of this fun and charming multi-award-winning musical play featuring Calgary artists.
Co-Musical Direction • Miranda Martini
Heartbreak Speedrun
By Miranda Martini
Sound: Alixandra Cowman
Art: Nastassia Mihalicz
Performers: Briana Trotter, Aisha Kueh, Hans Kyle Wackershauser, Michael Vetsch
Nine dates. Three prospective suitors. One broken heart. This is the run. Will you be able to speedrun your heartbreak, or is it game over for romance? This offbeat dating sim will take you to local haunts and hidden gems of downtown Calgary while telling a funny, heartfelt story about what it’s like to date with a broken heart.
HEARTBREAK SPEEDRUN was created as part of the Story City x Calgary Downtown collection. In partnership with the Story City app, the City of Calgary’s Downtown Strategy commissioned a collection of free, real life choose-your-own-adventures to get Calgarians active and exploring the streets of downtown.
Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir Podcast
Produced by Ashley King and Meg Wilcox
With support from Inside Out Theatre, Chromatic Theatre, and the Community Podcast Initiative at Mount Royal University
At the tender age of 18, Ashley King’s life is all about booze, boys, and parties. But when she wakes up blind on holiday, she has to face her darkest depths — grieving a new life she didn’t choose or want. This dark comedy asks — does everything really happen for a reason? Can joy be found in unexpected places?
This four-part podcast is an audio adaptation of the play Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir and includes some of my original sound design from the stage version. Note: this podcast includes explicit language and references to suicide and trauma.
Listen here, or wherever you download podcasts.
Sprawlcast: Corb Lund on Alberta’s coal fight
Featuring and edited by Miranda Martini
June 27, 2023
I speak with Alberta musician Corb Lund about why he chose to speak up about coal mining in the Eastern Slopes and what's next in that struggle. Read or listen here.