American actress
Miriam Silverman
Born Education Brown University (BA , MFA )Occupation(s) actor, professor Spouse Adam Green Children 2
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 .
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
Year
Project
Role
Venue
2022
Breaking
Hana
feature film debut
2022
Sand Mama
Vera
Short film
TBA
Motherland
Cora
Post-production
Television
Theatre
Year
Project
Role
Venue
Ref.
2002
Hot Star, Nebraska
Melanie
SpeakEasy Stage, Boston
[19]
2006
Awake and Sing!
Hennie Berger
Arena Stage , Washington, D.C
[20]
2006
The Calamity of Kat Kat and Willie
Kat Kat
Babel Theatre, Off-Broadway
[21]
2006
Bone Portraits
Various
Walkerspace, Off-Broadway
[22]
2006
The Fourth Wise Man
Ensemble
Studio Arena Theatre , Buffalo, New York
[23]
2007
As You Like It
Cecilia
Folger Theatre, Washington D.C
[24]
2007
Syncopation
Anna
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]
2009
A Dog and the Manger
Marcela
Shakespeare Theatre Company , Washington D.C
[27]
2010
The Love Course
Sally
Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway
[28]
2011
The Witch of Edmonton
Winifred
Theatre At St Clements, Off-Broadway
[29]
2011
Septimus and Clarissa
Elizabeth
Baruch Performing Arts Center, Off-Broadway
[30]
2013
Finks
Natalie
Ensemble Studio Theatre , Off-Broadway
[31]
2014
You Got Older
Hannah
Page 73, Off-Broadway
[32]
2015
A Delicate Ship
Sarah
Playwrights Horizons , Off-Broadway
[33]
2015
Everything You Touch
Jess
Cherry Lane Theatre , Off-Broadway
[34]
2016
The Moors
Emilie
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]
2019
Plano
Genevieve
Connelly Theater, Off-Broadway
[41]
2020
Antatomy of a Suicide
Various
Atlantic Theater Company , Off-Broadway
[42]
2020
Cult Of Love
Rachel Dahl
Williamstown Theatre Festival , Regional
[43]
2023
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Mavis Parodus Bryson
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
[44]
James Earl Jones Theatre , Broadway
[45]
2024
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Red Bull Theatre, Off-Broadway
[46]
2024
Find Me Here
Kristen
Clubbed Thumb, Off-Broadway
[47]
Awards and nominations
References
^ Finks, Playbill.com accessed 05/05/2023
^ Tisch School Directory, Silverman accessed 05/05/2023
^ Anita Silverman Obituary accessed 05/05/2023
^ Sherman, Rachel (2023-06-06). "Miriam Silverman Is 'Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness' " . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
^ "Michael D. Silverman, an editor and repo" . AP NEWS . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
^ ApplePodcasts.Com Silverman Interview accessed 09/22/2023
^ Silverman Talks accessed 06/22/23
^ Teeman, Tim (May 24, 2023). "Miriam Silverman Was Born on 'Good Morning America.' Next, a Tony Award?" – via www.thedailybeast.com.
^ "Home" . tcg.org .
^ Nebraska Playbill.com accessed 05/05/2023
^ Silverman bio, Goodman Theatre accessed 05/05/2023
^ https://playbill.com/article/greene-sheehy-and-silverman-set-for-old-masters-workshop-at-berkshire-lab-com-162203
^ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window on Broadway Starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Tickets" . New York Theatre Guide . 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
^ Miriam Silverman Playbill profile accessed 05/05/2023
^ Grobar, Matt (November 7, 2023). "Miriam Silverman, Emily Arancio, Nestor Carbonell & Holland Taylor Board Indie Drama 'Motherland' From MPI Original Films" .
^ "Miriam Silverman, Adam Green" . The New York Times . 2009-09-12. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
^ https://www.sagaftra.org/get-involved/ads-go-union/contact-us
^ "Home" . Fair Wage OnStage .
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^ [12] accessed 06/12/2023
^ "NY Premiere of Finks, With Aaron Serotsky, Leo Ash Evens and Miriam Silverman, Extends Through May" . Playbill . Retrieved May 7, 2023 .
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^ [14] accessed 06/12/2023
^ [15] accessed 06/12/2023
^ [16] accessed 06/12/2023
^ [17] accessed 06/12/2023
^ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" . Goodman Theatre . Retrieved May 7, 2023 .
^ [18] accessed 06/12/2023
^ "Junk: Who's Who" . Lincoln Center Theatre . Retrieved May 7, 2023 .
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^ [20] accessed 06/12/2023
^ NY Times Review accessed 06/12/2023
^ [21] accessed 06/12/2023
^ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" . BAM . Retrieved May 7, 2023 .
^ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window About the Cast" . signonbroadway . Retrieved May 7, 2023 .
^ [22] accessed 06/21/2024
^ [23] accessed 06/21/2024
External links
Awards for Miriam Silverman
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