ABOUT

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

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 Off-Off-Broadway with Good Apples Collective (BroadwayWorld Article) & educationally with 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 at Theatre Row (New York Times review), 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 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 stand-up club Astor Place Riots. They’ve performed at the Kraine Theater, Asylum NYC, & Iggy’s Bar, among others.

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

They are the butch daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents from the USSR, who grew up disabled & dykeish. They often find themselves interested in transmasculine, queer, & immigrant narratives questioning ideas of what it means to be an American, & interrogating the way that shame shapes both people & landscapes. Working with magical realism as a tool to make meaning inside the container of realism, Noma is largely interested in stories about sex, gender, class, family, & power.

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 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, unavoidably intimate, holding a bee in their mouth.