Miriam Silverman made her Broadway debut in the Ayad Akhtar play Junk in 2017.
19 Facts About Miriam Silverman
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Miriam Silverman 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.
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Miriam Silverman is 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 and Amazon's Dead Ringers.
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Miriam Silverman is an acting coach, and currently a theatre professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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Miriam Silverman's mother was a teacher and her father is a journalist and former managing editor of the Associated Press.
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Miriam Silverman attended Bronx High School of Science graduating in 1996.
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Miriam Silverman played Rizzo in a school production of Grease and played soccer.
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Miriam Silverman 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.
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Miriam Silverman's first acting role at Brown was Lady Croom in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
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Miriam Silverman worked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden between college semesters.
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Miriam Silverman took a gap year as an undergraduate to teach English in Hong Kong.
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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 Miriam Silverman is a repertory member actor.
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Miriam Silverman is a repertory member actor for Trinity Repertory Company.
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Miriam Silverman has performed several plays in summerstock in the Berkshires with companys like Berkshire on Stage and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.
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Miriam Silverman 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.
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Miriam Silverman 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.
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Miriam Silverman made her Broadway debut in 2017 as Amy in Ayad Akhtar's Junk at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
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Miriam Silverman appeared in the film Breaking which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
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In 2023, Miriam Silverman was cast in her first leading film role in Motherland produced by Moving Picture Institute.