Miriam Silverman
Silverman at the 76th Tony Awards in 2023
Born
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationBrown 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 Theatre 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 Botanical 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
2022BreakingHanafeature film debut
2022Sand MamaVeraShort film
TBA Motherland Cora Post-production

Television

Year Project Role Venue
2009Law & Order: Criminal IntentProtest LeaderEpisode: Alpha Dog
2011Pan AmMotherEpisode: We'll Always Have Paris
2014ElementarySupport Group WomanEpisode: End of Watch
2019NOS2A2June Partridge2 episodes
2019Bad EducationLisaHBO television film
2021The BlacklistJanelle GreenEpisode: The Avenging Angel
2022Blue BloodsAlcie AbenthyEpisode: Cold Comfort
2022Fleishman Is in TroubleAvigayilEpisode: This is My Enjoyment
2022–2023The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselBernice3 episodes
2023Dead RingersLaraEpisode: One

Theatre

Year Project Role Venue Ref.
2002Hot Star, NebraskaMelanieSpeakEasy Stage, Boston[19]
2006Awake and Sing!Hennie BergerArena 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 ManEnsembleStudio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, New York[23]
2007As You Like ItCeciliaFolger Theatre, Washington D.C[24]
2007SyncopationAnnaTriad Stage, Greensboro, North Carolina[25]
2008Peer GyntVariousGuthrie Theater, Minneapolis[26]
2008HamletPlayer Queen / GentlewomanThe Public Theatre, Off-Broadway[26]
2009A Dog and The MangerMarcelaShakespeare Theatre Company, Washington D.C[27]
2010The Love CourseSallyAcorn Theatre, Off-Broadway[28]
2011The Witch of EdmontonWinifredTheatre At St Clements, Off-Broadway[29]
2011Septimus and ClarissaElizabethBaruch Performing Arts Center, Off-Broadway[30]
2013FinksNatalieEnsemble Studio Theatre, Off-Broadway[31]
2014You Got OlderHannahPage 73, Off-Broadway[32]
2015A Delicate ShipSarahPlaywrights Horizons, Off-Broadway[33]
2015Everything You TouchJessCherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway[34]
2016The MoorsEmilieYale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut[35]
2016Tiny Beautiful ThingsSugarThe Public Theater, Off-Broadway[36]
2016The Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowMavis Parodus BrysonGoodman Theatre, Chicago[37]
2017Mary JaneBrianne / ChayaYale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut[38]
2017JunkAmy MerkinVivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway debut[39]
2019A Play Is A PoemThe WifeMark Taper Forum, Los Angeles[40]
2019PlanoGenevieveConnelly Theater, Off-Broadway[41]
2020Antatomy of a SuicideVariousAtlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway[42]
2023The Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowMavis Parodus BrysonBrooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)[43]
James Earl Jones Theatre, Broadway[44]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Project Result Ref.
2010Helen Hayes AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress, Resident PlayThe Dog in The MangerNominated
2013Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a PlayFinksNominated
2016Jeff AwardOutstanding Performer in a Supporting Role in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowNominated
2023Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Performance in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowWon
2023Tony AwardsBest Featured Actress in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's WindowWon

References

  1. ↑ Finks, Playbill.com accessed 05/05/2023
  2. ↑ Tisch School Directory, Silverman accessed 05/05/2023
  3. ↑ Anita Silverman Obituary accessed 05/05/2023
  4. ↑ Sherman, Rachel (2023-06-06). "Miriam Silverman Is 'Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  5. ↑ "Michael D. Silverman, an editor and repo". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  6. ↑ ApplePodcasts.Com Silverman Interviewaccessed 09/22/2023
  7. ↑ Silverman Talksaccessed 06/22/23
  8. ↑ Teeman, Tim (May 24, 2023). "Miriam Silverman Was Born on 'Good Morning America.' Next, a Tony Award?" – via www.thedailybeast.com.
  9. ↑ "Home". tcg.org.
  10. ↑ Nebraska Playbill.com accessed 05/05/2023
  11. ↑ Silverman bio, Goodman Theatre accessed 05/05/2023
  12. ↑ [https://playbill.com/article/greene-sheehy-and-silverman-set-for-old-masters-workshop-at-berkshire-lab-com-162203
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ Miriam Silverman Playbill profile accessed 05/05/2023
  15. ↑ Grobar, Matt (November 7, 2023). "Miriam Silverman, Emily Arancio, Nestor Carbonell & Holland Taylor Board Indie Drama 'Motherland' From MPI Original Films".
  16. ↑ "Miriam Silverman, Adam Green". The New York Times. 2009-09-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  17. ↑ https://www.sagaftra.org/get-involved/ads-go-union/contact-us
  18. ↑ "Home". Fair Wage OnStage.
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  31. ↑ "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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  37. ↑ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window". Goodman Theatre. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  38. ↑ accessed 06/12/2023
  39. ↑ "Junk: Who's Who". Lincoln Center Theatre. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  40. ↑ accessed 06/12/2023
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  42. ↑ NY Times Reviewaccessed 06/12/2023
  43. ↑ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window". BAM. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  44. ↑ "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window About the Cast". signonbroadway. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
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