ABOUT

Noma Mirny (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, & occasional actor who’s absolutely full of bees. They hail from Boston, Mass, which is where they first got the bees.

Noma is a senior at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Drama & DDW), where they received a multi-hyphenate theatrical training at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, & where they’re currently completing their degree in TV writing in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.

Their writing has gone up at Good Apples Collective (BroadwayWorld), Playwrights Horizons Downtown, Broke People Play Festival, and Uproar Theatre Corps, among others. They’ve directed multiple productions both off-off-Broadway & regionally, working as a director with The Tank, Village Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and as an assistant director & choreographer 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, as well as Off-Off Broadway at The Tank, & educationally 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 workplace comedy ; ANIMALS.

Noma is also a stand-up comic who did improv for two years until realizing you could just yap pre-written material into a microphone & pretend it was new. They’ve worked with Women Stand Up (WSU) NYC, and Astor Place Riots. They’ve performed at the Kraine Theater, Asylum NYC, & Iggy’s Bar. You can find them at an open mic in BK!

They are also the current associate artistic director of the queer-oriented theater collective, Dyke Theater Co.

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

Here they are, holding a bee in their mouth.