Miriam Silverman

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Miriam Silverman
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Silverman at the 76th Tony Awards in 2023
Born
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education Brown University (BA, MFA)
Occupation(s)actor, professor
SpouseAdam Green
Children2

Miriam Rose Silverman is an American actress. After studying acting at Brown University, she started her professional career on stage in numerous off-Broadway productions including The Public Theater's production of Hamlet in 2008. In 2013, she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance as Natalie in Finks by Joe Gilford. [1] She made her Broadway debut in the Ayad Akhtar play Junk in 2017. She returned to Broadway in the 2023 revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window portraying Mavis Parodus Bryson for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

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She is also known for her recurring role as Bernice in the Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and her performances in Hulu's Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022) and Amazon's Dead Ringers (2023). She is an acting coach, and currently a theatre professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. [2]

Early life and education

Silverman was born and raised in New York City in Manhattan, the daughter of Anita (née Palm 1942–2023). [3] and Michael Silverman. During her mother's pregnancy, Anita was featured on a special segment of Good Morning America documenting Miriam's birth. [4]

She has two brothers, Joseph and Jeffrey. Her mother was a teacher and her father is a journalist and former managing editor of the Associated Press. [5] She attended Bronx High School of Science graduating in 1996. Her interest in acting started at a young age, with her parents taking her to see Broadway shows. She played Rizzo in a school production of Grease and played soccer. She auditioned for LaGuardia High School For The Performing Arts and was accepted, however she turned down the offer and enrolled at Bronx Science, taking the subway from Manhattan. [6] [7]

Silverman graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Literature and Southeast Asian studies in 2001 and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Acting in 2005. Her first acting role at Brown was Lady Croom in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia . She worked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden between college semesters.

She took a gap year as an undergraduate to teach English in Hong Kong. [8] In 2012, through a fellowship with Theatre Communications Group, she moved to London to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Royal Shakespeare Company. . [9]

Career

In 2002 she performed in the musical Hot Star, Nebraska at Speakeasy Stage in Boston. [10] In 2008 she performed in a production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater. In 2010, she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in The Dog in the Manger with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where Silverman is a repertory member actor. Silverman is also a repertory member actor for Trinity Repertory Company. [11] She has performed several plays in summerstock in the Berkshires with companys like Berkshire on Stage and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab. [12]

She was nominated for a Jeff Award in 2016 for her performance as the lead female character's older sister Mavis Parodus Bryson in the Goodman Theatre's production of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window . She reprised this role in the New York productions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and then on Broadway in April 2023 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. [13] For her performance in the Broadway production, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

She made her Broadway debut in 2017 as Amy in Ayad Akhtar's Junk at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. [14] Her television appearances including episodes of Fleishman Is in Trouble and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel . She appeared in the film Breaking which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In 2023, Silverman was cast in her first leading film role in Motherland produced by Moving Picture Institute. [15]

Personal life

She married actor Adam Green in 2009. The couple met performing Awake and Sing! at the Arena Stage, directed by Zelda Fichandler. [16] Green, a Harvard graduate, works as the East Coast Union organizer for SAG-AFTRA. [17] The couple lobbied for the Actors' Equity Fair Wage on Stage movement. [18]

Filmography

Film

YearProjectRoleVenue
2022 Breaking Hanafeature film debut
2022Sand MamaVeraShort film
TBAMotherlandCoraPost-production

Television

YearProjectRoleVenue
2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Protest LeaderEpisode: Alpha Dog
2011 Pan Am MotherEpisode: We'll Always Have Paris
2014 Elementary Support Group WomanEpisode: End of Watch
2019 NOS2A2 June Partridge2 episodes
2019 Bad Education Lisa HBO television film
2021 The Blacklist Janelle GreenEpisode: The Avenging Angel
2022 Blue Bloods Alcie AbenthyEpisode: Cold Comfort
2022 Fleishman Is in Trouble AvigayilEpisode: This is My Enjoyment
2022–2023 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bernice3 episodes
2023 Dead Ringers LaraEpisode: One

Theatre

YearProjectRoleVenueRef.
2002Hot Star, NebraskaMelanieSpeakEasy Stage, Boston [19]
2006 Awake and Sing! Hennie Berger Arena Stage, Washington, D.C [20]
2006The Calamity of Kat Kat and WillieKat KatBabel Theatre, Off-Broadway [21]
2006Bone PortraitsVariousWalkerspace, Off-Broadway [22]
2006The Fourth Wise ManEnsemble Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, New York [23]
2007 As You Like It CeciliaFolger Theatre, Washington D.C [24]
2007SyncopationAnna Triad Stage, Greensboro, North Carolina [25]
2008 Peer Gynt Various Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis [26]
2008 Hamlet Player Queen / Gentlewoman The Public Theater, Off-Broadway [26]
2009A Dog and the MangerMarcela Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington D.C [27]
2010The Love CourseSallyAcorn Theatre, Off-Broadway [28]
2011 The Witch of Edmonton WinifredTheatre At St Clements, Off-Broadway [29]
2011Septimus and ClarissaElizabethBaruch Performing Arts Center, Off-Broadway [30]
2013FinksNatalie Ensemble Studio Theatre, Off-Broadway [31]
2014You Got OlderHannahPage 73, Off-Broadway [32]
2015A Delicate ShipSarah Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway [33]
2015Everything You TouchJess Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway [34]
2016The MoorsEmilie Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut [35]
2016 Tiny Beautiful Things Sugar The Public Theater, Off-Broadway [36]
2016 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson Goodman Theatre, Chicago [37]
2017 Mary Jane Brianne / Chaya Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut [38]
2017 Junk Amy Merkin Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway debut [39]
2019 A Play Is A Poem The Wife Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles [40]
2019PlanoGenevieveConnelly Theater, Off-Broadway [41]
2020Antatomy of a SuicideVarious Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway [42]
2023 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) [43]
James Earl Jones Theatre, Broadway [44]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryProjectResultRef.
2010 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident PlayThe Dog in The MangerNominated
2013 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play FinksNominated
2016 Jeff Award Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowNominated
2023 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Won
2023 Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Won

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