ABOUT

Noma Mirny (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, actor, & director hailing from Boston, Mass.

Noma is a recent graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, from which they graduated with a B.F.A. in Drama & Dramatic Writing. They received multi-hyphenate theatrical training at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School with a focus in playwriting & directing, and an intensive Screen & TV writing education in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, where they specialized in Episodic scripts.

Their playwriting has gone up Off-Off-Broadway with Good Apples Collective (BroadwayWorld), and been shown at The Brick, The Vino, Caveat NYC, & throughout NYC in various theaters (& bars). While in school, their plays have gone up at Playwrights Horizons Downtown, Broke People Play Festival, and Uproar Theatre Corps, among others.

They’ve directed multiple productions Off-Off-Broadway, working as a director with The Tank, The Vino, Village Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and as an assistant director & choreographer regionally for the childrens’ summer shows at Theater SilCo in Colorado.

As a non-equity actor, they have performed Off-Broadway with  the NYC Children’s Theater at Theatre Row under the direction of Anika Larsen (and were mentioned in the New York Times), as well as Off-Off Broadway at The Tank, & with NYU Tisch StudentWorks, Playwrights Horizons Downtown, Morpheus Productions, & in various student film projects. 

In addition to working in theater, Noma has also written numerous scripts for TV & film, and is currently developing an original half-hour YA workplace comedy about a group of teens who work at a zoo in Arizona; ANIMALS!

Noma is also a stand-up comic who has worked with Women Stand Up (WSU) NYC, and was the former president of the famous NYU stand-up club Astor Place Riots. They’ve performed at the Kraine Theater, Asylum NYC, & Iggy’s Bar, among others.

They are the current Key Artist & Co-Founder (& former Associate Artistic Director) of the lesbian & trans-oriented theater collective, Dyke Theater Co.

Most interested in developing new works as a writer, they’ve worked with their own work & the work of peer playwrights to put up productions of new plays throughout NYC. They believe theater is most effective when it feels unavoidable and intimate, and they stage their work to reflect that belief.

Here they are, unavoidably intimate, holding a bee in their mouth.