Founder and artistic director of Chaotic Heart Productions and Heroes Theatre Company,
Mia moved to San Francisco six years ago from Milan, Italy (accompanied by her ferocious attack cat Twilight Tiger Lily). In Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki and Milan, she appeared in a number of independent films
and video projects.
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Mia studied acting with David Wheeler; she later
studied with Bill Hickey at the HB Studio in New York. In San Francisco, she
studied with Ed Hooks and Bruce Williams, among others.
Mia has performed in a number of plays and independent films in the Bay Area. She produced
and performed in Heroes Theatre Company’s “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”, a collection of comedic
and dramatic scenes about dysfunctional relationships. She produced, directed and acted in After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Maggie), Harold Pinter’s The Lover, and Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra). Mia also acted in four productions of the Rough Theatre Company’s Daytrippers, performances
of one-acts conceived, written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours, one of which won Best of the Fringe 2001,
as well as Best New Fringe Idea. In October 2002, one of her most personally gratifying theatrical experiences was
performing in A Loud Little Handful, a site-specific production of works dealing with the aftermath of war and violence,
directed by Emily Koch.
Most recently, Mia's solo performance of some life, which she wrote and produced,
and which was directed by Emily Koch, received a Best of the Fringe 2004 award for Best Female Solo, at the San Francisco
Fringe Festival.
To support herself she has handed out quarters, kept the juke box going, and sold
pork rinds in a poolroom in Arkansas, attempted to look equally chic and knowledgeable at an art gallery in the Place des
Vosges, was a second-unit director for a documentary about the longest methane gas pipeline in the world (which runs from
Algeria to central-northern Italy), buried roaches in the whipped cream in an ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and made quite a few German people laugh as a French-Italian-English translator/shoe model for a fashion showroom in Milan.
Among other things.
