Miriam Silverman

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 Botanical 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]

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.

She married actor Adam Green in 2009. The couple met performing Awake and Sing! at the Arena Stage, directed by Zelda Fichandler.[15]Green, a Harvard graduate, works as the East Coast Union organizer for SAG-AFTRA.[16] The couple lobbied for the Actors Equity Fair Wage on Stage movement. [17]

• Miriam Silverman at IMDb
• Miriam Silverman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Miriam Silverman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database