Miriam Silverman

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 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

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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

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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

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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

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Film

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Year Project Role Venue
2022 Breaking Hana feature film debut
2022 Sand Mama Vera Short film
TBA Motherland Cora Post-production
TBA Sacrifice TBA Filming

Television

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Year Project Role Venue
2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Protest Leader Episode: Alpha Dog
2011 Pan Am Mother Episode: We'll Always Have Paris
2014 Elementary Support Group Woman Episode: End of Watch
2019 NOS2A2 June Partridge 2 episodes
2019 Bad Education Lisa HBO television film
2021 The Blacklist Janelle Green Episode: The Avenging Angel
2022 Blue Bloods Alcie Abenthy Episode: Cold Comfort
2022 Fleishman Is in Trouble Avigayil Episode: This is My Enjoyment
2022–2023 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bernice 3 episodes
2023 Dead Ringers Lara Episode: One

Theatre

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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

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Year Award Category Project Result Ref.
2010 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play The Dog in The Manger Nominated
2013 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play Finks Nominated
2016 Jeff Award Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role in a Play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Nominated
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

References

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  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 Interview accessed 09/22/2023
  7. ^ Silverman Talks accessed 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.
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  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
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