Mia Barron
- Actress
Mia Barron is an American theatre, film, and television actress. . She won the Lucille Lortel Award (Best Featured Performance in a play) for her performance in the Lincoln Center production of The Coast Starlight, an Obie award for her performance in Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, as well as a second Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her work in the ensemble of the Off Broadway production of The Wolves.
She is also known as the voice of Molotov and Sally Impossible on the Cartoon Network's long-running comic science-fiction series, The Venture Bros. Other television includes the recurring role of Marcia Morrissey on NBC's Law and Order: True Crime, with Edie Falco, and the recurring role of Emily on season two of Get Shorty. She co-created, (alongside director Lars Jan) and starred in a theatrical version of Joan Didion's The White Album, which toured to Los Angeles, The Sydney Festival and to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Other recent projects include a recurring role on NCIS, Jenji Kohan's HBO pilot The Devil You Know, Comedy Central's show Review, the independent film I Smile Back with Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles, and the independent Half Empty/Half Full with Maria Thayer and Stark Sands, which was nominated for Best Ensemble by the New York Film Awards.
Her stage work in New York includes the recent off-Broadway production of The Wolves named one of the best plays of 2016 by the New York Times, Tom Stoppard's Tony winning production of The Coast of Utopia (with Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Ehle), two of Pulitzer-winning writer Bruce Norris's plays; The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons) and Domesticated (Lincoln center, opposite Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf) and Beau Willimon's Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Jeremy Sisto). Mia has performed in many Off-Broadway plays at the most prestigious Off Broadway houses in NYC. Her regional stage work includes House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum, opposite Jane Kaczmarek), Farragut North (Geffen Theatre, opposite Chris Noth and Chris Pine), as well as being a regular performer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
As a writer, she co-wrote and performed in Off-Broadway's Big Times (directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman), an adaptation of Chekhov's Ward Six for the Graduate Acting Program at NYU, and an ongoing project about slain human rights activist, Natalya Estemirova for Villa La Pietra in Florence. She is active in the independent comedy scene, performing with Sarah Silverman on The Sarah Silverman Program and in both of Rob Corddry's series Children's Hospital and Newsreaders. She came to New York to attend NYU's BFA and MFA acting programs at Tisch School of the Arts.
She and her partner, media artist/director Lars Jan, have one child, Esme Jan.
She is also known as the voice of Molotov and Sally Impossible on the Cartoon Network's long-running comic science-fiction series, The Venture Bros. Other television includes the recurring role of Marcia Morrissey on NBC's Law and Order: True Crime, with Edie Falco, and the recurring role of Emily on season two of Get Shorty. She co-created, (alongside director Lars Jan) and starred in a theatrical version of Joan Didion's The White Album, which toured to Los Angeles, The Sydney Festival and to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Other recent projects include a recurring role on NCIS, Jenji Kohan's HBO pilot The Devil You Know, Comedy Central's show Review, the independent film I Smile Back with Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles, and the independent Half Empty/Half Full with Maria Thayer and Stark Sands, which was nominated for Best Ensemble by the New York Film Awards.
Her stage work in New York includes the recent off-Broadway production of The Wolves named one of the best plays of 2016 by the New York Times, Tom Stoppard's Tony winning production of The Coast of Utopia (with Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Ehle), two of Pulitzer-winning writer Bruce Norris's plays; The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons) and Domesticated (Lincoln center, opposite Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf) and Beau Willimon's Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, opposite Jeremy Sisto). Mia has performed in many Off-Broadway plays at the most prestigious Off Broadway houses in NYC. Her regional stage work includes House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum, opposite Jane Kaczmarek), Farragut North (Geffen Theatre, opposite Chris Noth and Chris Pine), as well as being a regular performer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
As a writer, she co-wrote and performed in Off-Broadway's Big Times (directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman), an adaptation of Chekhov's Ward Six for the Graduate Acting Program at NYU, and an ongoing project about slain human rights activist, Natalya Estemirova for Villa La Pietra in Florence. She is active in the independent comedy scene, performing with Sarah Silverman on The Sarah Silverman Program and in both of Rob Corddry's series Children's Hospital and Newsreaders. She came to New York to attend NYU's BFA and MFA acting programs at Tisch School of the Arts.
She and her partner, media artist/director Lars Jan, have one child, Esme Jan.
