Miriam Silverman is an American actress. She is also 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 (2022) and Amazon's Dead Ringers (2023). She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in the 2023 revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. She is an acting coach, and currently an adjunct teacher at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.Tisch School Directory, Silverman accessed 05/05/2023
Early life and education Silverman was raised in New York City in Manhattan, the daughter of Anita (née Palm 1942–2023).Anita Silverman Obituary accessed 05/05/2023 and Michael Silverman. During her mother's pregnancy, Anita was featured on a special segment of Good Morning America documenting Miriam's birth.
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. 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.ApplePodcasts.Com Silverman Interview accessed 09/22/2023Silverman Talks accessed 06/22/23
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 Botanic Garden between college semesters.
She took a gap year as an undergraduate to teach English in Hong Kong. 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.
Career In 2002 she performed in the musical Hot Star, Nebraska at Speakeasy Stage in Boston.Nebraska Playbill.com accessed 05/05/2023 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.Silverman bio, Goodman Theatre accessed 05/05/2023 She has performed several plays in summerstock in the Berkshires with companys like Berkshire on Stage and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.
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. 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.Miriam Silverman Playbill profile accessed 05/05/2023 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. In 2023, Silverman was cast in her first leading film role in Motherland produced by Moving Picture Institute.
Personal life She married actor Adam Green in 2009. The couple met performing Awake and Sing! at the Arena Stage, directed by Zelda Fichandler. Green, a Harvard graduate, works as the East Coast Union organizer for SAG-AFTRA.https://www.sagaftra.org/get-involved/ads-go-union/contact-us The couple lobbied for the Actors' Equity Fair Wage on Stage movement. She is Jewish and a member of the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel.
Filmography Film Year Project Role Venue 2022 Breaking Hana feature film debut 2022 Sand Mama Vera Short film 2025 Motherland Cora Sacrifice
Television Year Project Role Venue2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Protest Leader Episode: Alpha Dog2011 Pan Am Mother Episode: We'll Always Have Paris2014 Elementary Support Group Woman Episode: End of Watch2019 NOS2A2 June Partridge 2 episodes2019 Bad Education Lisa HBO television film2021 The Blacklist Janelle Green Episode: The Avenging Angel 2022 Blue Bloods Alcie Abenthy Episode: Cold Comfort2022 Fleishman Is in Trouble Avigayil Episode: This is My Enjoyment 2022–2023 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bernice 3 episodes2023 Dead Ringers Lara Episode: One2025 Your Friends & Neighbors Gretchen Reagan 8 episodes2025 Landman Greta Stidham 2 episodes2026 Vladimir Florence 6 episodes
Theatre Year Project Role Venue Ref.2002 Hot Star, Nebraska Melanie SpeakEasy Stage, Boston 2006 Awake and Sing! Hennie Berger Arena Stage, Washington, D.C 2006 The Calamity of Kat Kat and Willie Kat Kat Babel Theatre, Off-Broadway 2006 Bone Portraits Various Walkerspace, Off-Broadway 2006 The Fourth Wise Man Ensemble Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, New York 2007 As You Like It Cecilia Folger Theatre, Washington D.C 2007 Syncopation Anna Triad Stage, Greensboro, North Carolina 2008 Peer Gynt Various Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis 2008 Hamlet Player Queen / Gentlewoman The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2009 A Dog and the Manger Marcela Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington D.C 2010 The Love Course Sally Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway 2011 The Witch of Edmonton Winifred Theatre At St Clements, Off-Broadway 2011 Septimus and Clarissa Elizabeth Baruch Performing Arts Center, Off-Broadway accessed 06/12/20232013 Finks Natalie Ensemble Studio Theatre, Off-Broadway 2014 You Got Older Hannah Page 73, Off-Broadway 2015 A Delicate Ship Sarah Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway 2015 Everything You Touch Jess Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway 2016 The Moors Emilie Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut 2016 Tiny Beautiful Things Sugar The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2016 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson Goodman Theatre, Chicago 2017 Mary Jane Brianne / Chaya Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut 2017 Junk Amy Merkin Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway debut 2019 A Play Is A Poem The Wife Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles 2019 Plano Genevieve Connelly Theater, Off-Broadway 2020 Antatomy of a Suicide Various Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway NY Times Review accessed 06/12/20232020 Cult Of Love Rachel Dahl Williamstown Theatre Festival, Regional 2023 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) James Earl Jones Theatre, Broadway 2024 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Red Bull Theatre, Off-Broadway accessed 06/21/20242024 Find Me Here Kristen Clubbed Thumb, Off-Broadway 2025 Deep Blue Sound Mary Clubbed Thumb (Public Theatre), Off-Broadway 2026 The Disappear Mira Blair Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway AudiblexMinetta.Com The Disapearaccessed 01/25/2066 2026 The Verge Claire ArcherThe Public Theater, Off-Broadwaypublictheater.org The Verge Cast Listingaccessed 09/26/2026
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Project Result Ref.2010 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play The Dog in The Manger 2013 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play Finks 2016 Jeff Award Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role in a Play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 2023 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Performance in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 2023 Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a PlayThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
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