…and her favorite place in the world is the rehearsal room! She seeks stories that center women and black folks, conjure some magic, and build community.

Recent theater credits include the leading roles of Kitt in cityscrape by Sophie McIntosh, Yam in before the flood by Emily Bice, Beatrice in Utah Shakespeare Festival’s tour of Much Ado About Nothing, and Woman in Lydia Sabatini’s one-woman show You Are What You Eat.

On screen, Mia recently appeared in Dumb Money (Sony Pictures). Previously she played Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch, a 70-episode web series that was selected for several film festivals and lovingly reviewed in The New Yorker and Paris’ Le Monde. Upcoming: The Philosophy of Dress, directed by Cyrus Duff and starring Sydney Lemmon.

Mia has received awards in playwriting from the Paula Vogel Mentorship program, Yale University, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights. She maintains a substack about books and theater here. Upcoming: new publication in Lit Hub 3/24. 

Mia holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale and is always down to talk 15th century heresies.