Miriam Gordon was born in Detroit, Michigan. Miriam wrote the book with Paul Scott Goodman and directed the musical Him and Her, Tiny Dancer and Domestica, which won a New York International Fringe Festival award, and was also produced at the Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, Theater One, New York and Musical TheaterWorks, New York. She was book writer with Paul Scott Goodman and director of God Save the New Wave (Bottom Line and West Bank Theater, New York) and Marathon by Paul Scott Goodman (New York Theater Workshop). Miriam directed the short musical, I've Got To See You Again, by two-time Grammy Award winner Jesse Harris, whose title song was recorded on Norah Jones' Grammy Award winning album. Miriam is writer and lyricist with Wendy Federman for a new musical, Not For Better, and is the writer and director of a new musical, The Kid Who Ran For President, which received the Allan S. Gordon Foundation Performing Arts Program Award. Her other directing credits include Rooms (Theater One, New York), When Heaven and Earth (Circle Rep East, New York) and In Audela (Cherry Lane Theater, New York). She has also written, directed and produced political programming for New York television. Miriam is the recipient of a Stella Adler Talent Award, and also trained with Ms. Adler, at the London Academy of Dramatic Art, and with Anthony Hopkins, Alfred Molina, Wynn Handman, Austin Pendleton, and has performed in the Yiddish Theater. Goodman's other produced musicals include: Him & Her, Prince Music Theater and the New York International Fringe Festival, (2002 Best Performance Award ); ROOMS, New York Musical Theatre Festival (directed by Scott Schwartz, nominated best musical by Outer Critics Circle, 2009); Alive in the World, Zipper Theatre 2006; God Save the New Wave (Bottom Line, West Bank Theater); Metropolitan Music, Marymount Manhattan College; and Just East of Broadway, The Duplex. He is currently writing Open Road and A Walk on the Moon for Tony-winning producers Steve and Ruth Hendel.