Mia Cusianovic is a first-generation Chilean–Croatian–Peruvian actor, singer, and writer. Led by an ethos of unconditional love, she is invested in creating work in conversation with the world, with the belief that art has the collective power to move things — the capacity to invoke healing and change — using storytelling as the creative vessel in which we make the world a more “human-dwelling place.” Mia’s acting, music, and writing explore themes of contradiction, fascinated by the friction between what is seen or hidden, certain and uncertain, often using that tension to subvert familiar narratives and perceptions.

Theater credits include: “Laurel Canyon, 1979” (In rep with Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian, The Fire Weeds); “Hockey Wives” by Tanya O’Debra (La MaMa); “Verity Sits in her Apartment” (The Tank); “A Lie of the Mind” (American Theatre of Actors), and “Lavinia Andronicus Is YOUR Spin Instructor!” (OOB Concord Festival Finalist at Classic Stage). With Mia’s production company, Matchbox Productions, co-founded by Jordan Hull, she produced and acted in “Matchbox Salon” at the Atlantic Theater, featuring the work of Maia Siegel (Granta) and Chiara Atik (Five Times In One Night, Poor Clare).

Television and Film credits include: FBI (CBS/Dick Wolf); What Brings You Here Tonight? (dir. Anjali Moorthy). She is currently developing the lead role in the magical realism musical Her First Revolution by Mark Hampton and Napua Davoy.

Beyond acting, Mia dramaturged Trying for Hedda at La MaMa’s New Experiments Lab, associate produced A Night of Spoken Word for Womxn and Non-binary Poets at the Martin E. Segal Center and Cabaret Echo with Citizen Arts, and curated and distributed the zine Chasing Eternity, inspired by writers Oliver Sacks and María Irene Fornés, in partnership with Citizen Arts and the Segal Center. She’s set to release her debut EP Summer 2026.

The proud daughter of immigrant parents, Mia grew up in Southern California and spent her childhood visiting the south of Chile each summer on that side of the equator. She holds a BFA in Acting with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, studying at Stella Adler, ITW Amsterdam, and The Classical Studio, with a concentration in Art & Public Policy. She is based between New York City and Los Angeles.