Mia Cusianovic is a California-born, First-generation Chilean-Croatian-Peruvian Artist currently based between New York City and Los Angeles.

She recently graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, earning a BFA in Acting. During her time there, she trained in Viewpoints, dance, and character work at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting; Grotowski, devising, and Commedia/mask at ETW’s International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam; and Shakespeare and pre-professional development at The Classical Studio.

Her most recent acting credits include A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard (Dir. Luke Wisniewski, The American Theatre of Actors), Hockey Wives by Tanya O’Debra (Dir. Sara Wolkowitz, La MaMa), Verity Sits in her Apartment by Lillian Mottern (Dir. Danica Selem, The Tank), and Richard III (Dir. Daniel Spector, The Classical Studio).

She loves to move, investigate, leap before looking, and engage in an art-making practice that leads with a bursting heart, a playful spirit, a grounded vulnerability, and a deep curiosity. She is especially passionate about community-engaged work under the ethos that theater has a collective power & capacity to invoke healing and change. 

In addition to acting, Mia dramaturged an adaptation of Hedda Gabler, “Trying For Hedda,” at La MaMa with their new experiments lab, associate produced “A Night of Spoken Word for Womxn and Non-binary Poets” at the Martin E. Segal Center & “Cabaret Echo” with Citizen Arts, and curated and released the Zine “Chasing Eternity” inspired by writers Oliver Sacks and Maria Irene Fornes in association with Citizen Arts and the Martin E. Segal Center. Mia is also a Singer-Songwriter working on her debut EP set to release Fall 2025.

In her free time, you can also find her taking film photos of her friends, trying to remember last night’s bizarre dream, riding her bike, or writing haikus in the park.

Upcoming: “What Brings you Here Tonight?” by Anjali Moorthy