AT present appearing at the Pleasance Courtyard as part of the Edinburgh Fringe, York-born actress and storyteller Danyah Miller will perform Perfectly Imperfect Woman in her home city from September 14 to 16 in the York Theatre Royal Studio.

Danyah's Fringe show explores what drives us to want to live perfect lives and asks what is perfection and what's so bad about imperfection. "This universal story examines the complex relationship between mothers and daughters and what it means to accept imperfection in order to connect more deeply with your female line," she says.

Danyah's York connections stretch back to her parents meeting at the De Grey Rooms' Saturday night dances in the 1960s,when the band leader was John Barry, in her father's days at York College.

Educated at Clifton Prep School and Queen Margaret's, at Escrick Park, Danyah trained in drama, dance and English, later studying improvisation, mime and physical theatre at Lecoq in Paris. She is now a course leader at the International School of Storytelling, in East Sussex, where she regularly leads workshops. 
Danyah starred in the Wizard Presents production of Michael Morpurgo's I Believe In Unicorns, premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe before touring nationally and internationally for two and a half years. This one-woman show received an Argus Angel Award for artistic excellence at the 2014 Brighton Festival 2014 and an Audience Choice Award at the 2015 Get Creative Family Arts Festival. Her second one-woman show, Morpurgo's Why The Whales Came, opened at Watford Palace Theatre last September.

For two years, Danyah was a regular storyteller on BBC Three Counties Radio and she also recorded a five-part version of The Snow Queen for BBC Radio that first aired over Christmas 2014.

Tickets for her 7.45pm evening shows and 2pm Saturday matinee are on sale at £12 at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or on 01904 623568.