Biography

Mia is a Los Angeles based actor who teaches Advanced Acting in the MFA Performance program. For her work as an actor Off-Broadway, she has received two Obie Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award and a Drama Desk Award. 

She has appeared on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning production of The Coast of Utopia and in premieres of new plays at Off-Broadway theatres including: The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theatre Company and New York Theatre Workshop. She has worked at multiple regional theatres across the country including: Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen, Actor’s, Long Wharf Theatre, Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Acting Company and La Jolla Playhouse. She has also spent many seasons developing new plays at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, the O’Neill Theatre Center, New York Stage and Film and New Dramatists, among others.

Television work includes roles on Grey’s Anatomy, Get Shorty, NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Shameless, Newsroom, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Medium, Numb3rs, Bones, Modern Family, Glee, as well as a long-running role as the voice of Molotov on Adult Swim’s The Venture Brothers. Film work includes A Southern Haunting, Hiding Places, I Smile Back, The F Word, 27 Dresses, Amnesiac, 411, Righteous Kill, First Love and Half Empty/Half Full, which was nominated for best ensemble by the New York Film Awards.

She co-created and starred in the Off-Broadway production of Big Times, as well as the international tour of Joan Didion’s The White Album, which premiered at BAM’s Next Wave Festival and internationally at the Sydney Festival. 

She has been awarded the Ron Van Lieu Fellowship for the Teacher Development Program of the National Alliance for Acting Teachers. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts theatre panelist and a recipient of the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity at Lincoln Center Theatre.