…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. Upcoming: The Philosophy of Dress , a film by Cyrus Duff and Jacob Potash starring Sydney Lemmon.

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.

As a writer, Mia recently finished her first film, Parts, a short thriller co-starring Sky Lakota Lynch and directed by Council Brandon, and fulfilled a childhood dream by joining the writing team (and voice cast!) for the webseries Lego Harry Potter and the Transgender Witch. Mia has received awards in playwriting from the Paula Vogel Mentorship program, Yale University, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights. You can also find her newsletter here.

Mia holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale and is always down to talk medieval theology.