Greetings!

I’m Roxie, a Boston-based director with a passion for non-realistic performance styles. I specialize in puppetry, opera, and theatrical performance in non-traditional spaces.

My mission is the re-enchantment of the modern world.

Whenever we bravely pretend that a fictional world or a fabricated character is real, we discover how to make the impossible possible.

Biography

Roxanna Myhrum is an award-winning director of opera, theater, and puppetry. From 2010 - 2021 she was the Artistic Director of Puppet Showplace Theater where she directed major co-productions, instigated new work by local artists, curated year-round performance series, and oversaw all-ages educational programs. A sought-after puppetry coach and director, she has credits at the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage (Eliott Norton Award, Hand to God), Company One, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston (IRNE Award, Avenue Q), Wheelock Family Theater, New Repertory Theatre, and Gloucester Stage Company (among others). Her work has been supported by the Boston Foundation’s Live Arts Boston Grant and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City Grant.

Roxanna is also an experienced opera director, and has staged full-length operas, concerts, and scenes programs in 7 different languages in both theaters and non-traditional spaces. In 2023, she directed the world premiere of the opera MONKEY: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable for White Snake Projects, where she was supported by Opera America’s grant for women stage directors. As a pioneering member of Boston’s vibrant fringe opera scene, Roxanna worked with companies including Boston Opera Collaborative, Juventas New Music Ensemble, OperaHub, the Diva Day Foundation, Opera Brittenica, Commonwealth Lyric Theater, and Harvard’s Lowell House Opera, where she was resident stage director for 7 years. Roxanna was also the first opera directing apprentice at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado. Most recently she created innovative stagings of choral works, including Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and the Manticore with Metropolitan Chorale, and served as associate director for Concert Theatre Works’ Markus Passion.

Roxanna has guest-taught directing, devising, and puppetry performance at Harvard, Brown, Emerson College, Boston University, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Suffolk University, Boston College, Babson, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and in numerous K-12 camp and school settings. She has also led teacher trainings for school systems in Boston, Newton, Brookline, Cambridge, and Framingham.

Roxanna is originally from Springfield, MA where she studied acting and directing at The Drama Studio. Growing up, she performed professionally at regional theaters around the Pioneer Valley, including at the Majestic Theatre, City Stage (formerly StageWest), and Summer Theatre at Mt. Holyoke College. For many years, she was a Flock Theatre associate / resident company member at the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference. Roxanna is an honors graduate of Harvard University (Social Studies, 2005) and has professional experience as an academic researcher. She has also worked at Boston Lyric Opera, Company One Theatre, the Boston Foundation, and numerous Boston-area documentary film companies. She is currently on sabbatical in France (Aug 2026-July 2027).