His play, Too Heavy for Your Pocket, has won the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, and will be produced at the Alliance Theatre in the 2016-17 season. There’s a lot in store in Atlanta for Jiréh Breon Holder ’16. She says, “My music has made my Shakespeare better, and my Shakespeare has made my music better.” She started writing lyrics during Creating Actor Generated Work, a course at YSD taught by Joan MacIntosh (Faculty), and became invested in the process while performing in Richard III at the Public Theater in 2012. She says that her music, which “is all about uplifting and education through entertainment,” is deeply connected to her identity as a classical actor. Miriam is also a hip hop emcee, with the rap moniker Robyn Hood. Miriam’s recent film work includes The Congressman (currently in theatres), where she can be seen alongside Treat Williams Split, which premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and the upcoming Most Beautiful Island. She currently has a recurring role on CBS’s Blue Bloods as the medical examiner, Emile Cooper, and has recorded her first audio book, Natalie Baszile’s Queen Sugar. My truth matters.”Įarlier this year, Miriam played Berniece in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ.
It doesn’t matter that I’m a woman, or that I’m African American. “Major props and kudos to Evan for having the boldness and veracity to bend the gender and create more roles for women,” says Miriam. Miriam played the role of Posthumus-Evan cast a number of women as male characters. This spring she performed in Evan Yionoulis’s ’85, YC ’82 (Faculty) production of Cymbeline at Yale Rep, alongside a cast that included many YSD alumni. She envisions the fellowship as a chance to improve her craft and ask herself, “What else can I do?” The fellowship will give her “the leisure to explore” and access to opportunities she wouldn’t otherwise have. The award says not only do we see what you do, but we also see a future,” says Miriam. “I’m so thankful to be recognized and honored to be among the recipients. Hyman ’12 recently received a 2016 Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship, which offers two years of generous support to emerging artists.
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