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Mia is an award-winning artist who specializes in 360° experiences harnessing total sensory engagement. Her storytelling lens is inspired by a career as a multi-hyphenate artist and professor creating across the theater, film, TV, and experience spaces in eclectice environments—from shipping containers and vacant motels to world-class museums and Broadway houses. Whether encountered in a downtown theater, indie movie house, or large-scale spectacle curated for thousands, her work is about meaning making, and creating unforgettable experiences driven by equal parts serendipity and intentionality.

Recent site-specific, immersive directing includes Juggerknot’s Miami Motel Stories, named in Vogue Magazine’s Cultural Guide to Avoiding Art Basel & Inphantry’s Best Brand Experiences and Activations at Art Basel and Miami Art Week, and The Civilians’ The Way They Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, named in The New Yorker’s Favorite Cultural Moments list. The recent experiential Google Tech Immersion received the Grand Ex Award, Best B2B Event Ex Award, and BizBash’s 10 Most Innovative Meetings 2025 list on the heels of Google Generate receiving two Event Marketer Experience Design Awards (Best Use of AI (Gold); Best Combination of Event Technologies (Silver)), BizBash’s 10 Most Innovative Meetings 2024 list,and finalist for Best Event Experience 2024 Award. Recent speaking engagements: Award-Winning Showcase: A Creative Deep Dive at EMS 2026 and a BizBash webinar with Google and Opus Agency on personalization in immersive experiences.

Full Disclosure, her award-winning debut film, premiered in NYC, LA, SF, Amsterdam, and Toronto: Official Selections here.  ELEVATOR, an immersive 3 channel video installation, created with cross-disciplinary collaborators Tahir Karmali and Liz Thys, premiered at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, and was presented by BRIC in a virtual iteration on Bricbrooklyn YouTube. The Blind, an audio/visual meditation adapted from Maeterlinck’s Les Aveugles with long-time collaborator Jeanette Yew, premiered at HERE Arts Center in a journey through sound, object, light, animation, shadow puppetry, and original choral compositions.

Her plays have been developed by BRIC, The Public Theater, P73, New Georges (affiliated artist), Culture Project, The Civilians, Perishable and foolsFURY. Mia was Associate Director for the critically acclaimed immersive productions of Sweeney Todd (Tooting Arts Club/Barrow St Theater) and The Tenant (West Park Presbyterian Church/Woodshed Collective), and Assistant Director for Time Stands Still on Broadway. She has directed new works for Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, LaMaMa, New Group, HERE, WP Theater, New York Theater Workshop, St Anne’s Warehouse, Berkeley Rep, Classic Stage, 59E59 Theaters, The Civilians (associate artist), Partial Comfort (company member), INTAR, The O’Neill, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, New York Stage & Film, Playwrights Realm, Atlantic, Labyrinth, Bushwick Starr, JACK, TerraNOVA, EST, The Amoralists, A.R.T. and others. Mia is an alumna of: The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, BRIClab Performing Arts Residency, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Civilians R & D Group, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Women’s Project Directors Lab, New Georges Jam and Audrey Residency & St. Ann’s Puppet Lab. She holds a BS in Performance Studies: Northwestern University and  MFA in Directing: Brown University.

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A W A R D S
2026 Grand Ex Award (Google Tech Immersion)
2026 Best B2B Event Award (Google Tech Immersion)
2026 New Georges Audrey Residency
2025 BizBash 10 Most Innovative Meetings (Google Tech Immersion)
2024 Event Marketer Experience Design Awards – Best Use of AI (Gold); Best Combination of Event Technologies (Silver) (Google Generate)
2024 BizBash 10 Most Innovative Meetings (Google Generate)
2024 BizBash Best Event Experience finalist (Google Generate)
2020-23 The Public Theater Devised Theater Working Group Residency
2020-21 BRIClab Performing Arts Residency
2020 Catwalk Residency
2017-18 Drama League Directing Fellowship in Film/Television (Madam Secretary, CBS)
2018 2 Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Residencies
2016 MacDowell Fellowship
2016 Playwright in Residence, Rutgers MFA Playwriting Program
2016-17 CUNY Arts Across Curriculum grant: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Performance
2014 New Georges Audrey Residency
2013 Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Residency
2013 NY State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant
2010 SDC Observership
2010 MTC Jonathan Alper Fellowship
2009 Drama League Fellowship
2007 P73 Yale Summer Residency

c r e a t i v e   d i r e c t i n g
Mia works with leading cultural institutions and global brands to bring award-winning experience design and holistic end-to-end creative strategy to immersive experiences, emerging technologies, brand activations, interactive installations, live/virtual events, experiential product launches, new media production, site-specific theater, & more. From concept to execution, her creative collaborations center sustainable practices and partnerships that elevate local artists and vendors.

u n i v e r s i t y   t e a c h i n g 
Current MFA faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
Former faculty: Brown University, New College of California, New Group/LIU, Hunter College, NYU/Tisch (Production & Design Studio; Playwrights Horizons Theater School).