Mia Y. Anderson is an actress, director and  writer. A native of New York, she was born and raised in the Republic of Brooklyn. She spent over 10 years in Boston, where she founded, directed and produced the all-female cabaret troupe Drag Kings, Sluts & Goddesses, which ran for a decade and was profiled in the Boston Globe, Color of Change, Bay Windows and the winner of the Fresh Fruit Festival Audience Favorite in New York. In Boston as an actress, she performed with companies like RadioDisney, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Boston Theatre Works, Boston Playwrights Theater and Theater Offensive.  Since returning to New York, she has been featured in several films like award-wining films Queen of Glory, A Chance, Productionamong many others. She has worked with theater companies like The Civilians, The National Black Theater and Poetic Productions. As a director she has worked with several theater companies including The Rising Sun Company, The Road Company of LA, Culture Project and she was a 2014 directing fellow with New Perspectives Theater and an alum of the 2015 Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab.  As a writer, she has shared at the Nuyorican Poets Café, New York Public Library, Fresh Fruit Festival Poetry Night and The New American Theatre and has published essays in the Lambda Literary award nominee Pinned Down by Pronouns andGetting Bi. She was a 2016 BarnArts Hamilton Project writing resident. In 2017, her first solo work “her, him, prince, michael, and marvin aka love is love is love” was featured at the 2017 Failsafe Festival , a workshop production in 2018 produced by the Dirty Blondes Theater and was a 2019 QuickSilver Theater POC Summit Finalist work.  She has worked with Improvscience as the Performer Director for the past 12 years where she has co-facilitated workshops on Professional Presentations with founder Dr. Raquel Holmes for Boston University, Harvard University, University of Connecticut and The Chemical Society. She was presenter at the Cestemer17 conference, her workshop “Better Version of You”  focused on  Professional Presentations for scientists.  Their ground breaking work at Harvard University was chronicled in The Applied Improvisation Mindset  collection published in 2021.