The TonyAwards are tonight, and Miriam Silverman is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. TimTeeman talked to the 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window' star in May. Check out the interview here:
Silverman’s performance as Mavis, Iris’ starchily conservative sister, had been widely praised in reviews, while general responses to the play had been more mixed.Silverman doesn’t read reviews. After the show closed at BAM, her manager sent her two pages of quotes raving about her performance. “That was really nice,” Silverman said. “I was really overwhelmed. I’m also glad I didn’t know it during the run.
The nomination feels like a pivotal moment, Silverman said, “but everything in my life feels pivotal right now. I didn’t have a Tony nomination as a goal, but it is a crowning achievement in the theater world. It happens and you realize maybe it secretly was a goal. I think it could change my professional life, but in what way and how that manifests I don’t know.” She laughed. “Maybe I just become ‘the Tony-nominated Miriam Silverman.
For the first two weeks in hospital, Silverman and her mother could talk; for her final 10 days her mother was on a ventilator. “I’m getting to the age where a lot of friends’ parents are passing away,” she said. “I’ve watched those friends suffer through their parents being ill for years, and slowly deteriorate. That is its own kind of agony. We’re still processing it, but I am grateful my mother didn’t suffer for long. We were very close. She helped raise my kids.
“During the day I could not get out of bed and I would cry all day. I would pick the kids up from school—that would be my little buoy—and then at 5 p.m. I would go do this drama I loved. It was the first time I ever understood theater could be medicine. I did the performances truly not because I felt an obligation to anyone. It was selfishly just enjoyable to be in front of an audience.
Silverman—who combines her acting career with being a part time adjunct professor at New York University, teaching undergraduate and MFA acting students—first played Mavis in the 2016 Chicago production, also directed by Kauffman. “Annie sent me the play, and said, ‘It’s not the lead part, but it’s an incredible part.’” Silverman concurred. “In some ways it’s the best part, and one of my greatest parts ever. The whole play blew my mind when I read it.
Miriam Silverman and Micaela Diamond attend the 76th Annual Tony Awards 'Meet The Nominees' press event At Sofitel New York at Sofitel New York on May 04, 2023 in New York City.This author has seen the play twice, once at BAM and once on Broadway. Both times, the audience volubly got behind Mavis—not for her bigotry, but for her deriding Sidney and Iris’ liberal smugness. “I feel that from the audience,” Silverman said.
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