Mia Rovegno is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and puppeteer. Her plays have been developed by P73, New Georges, Culture Project, The Civilians, Perishable, and foolsFURY. She has directed new work for Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Women’s Project, NYTW, Berkeley Rep, The Civilians, INTAR, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The O’Neill, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, JACK, New York Stage & Film, Prelude, The Lark, Playwrights Realm, Atlantic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Labyrinth, TerraNOVA, 59E59, Bushwick Starr, Culture Project, New Dramatists, Rising Phoenix, EST, Partial Comfort, Woodshed, The Amoralists, A.R.T., Hangar Theatre, Playwrights Rep, and others. Rovegno is a 2-time Drama League Fellow, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Partial Comfort Company Member, and Associate Artist with The Civilians. She is a recipient of the 2016 MacDowell Fellowship, New Georges Audrey Residency, P73 Yale Summer Residency, SDC Observership, and Jonathan Alper Fellowship (MTC), and was a finalist for the Drama League Beatrice Terry Residency for writer/directors. She is an alumna of The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Civilians R & D Group, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New Georges Jam, and Women’s Project Lab. She received her bachelor’s in performance studies from Northwestern and M.F.A. in directing from Brown University. An assistant professor at Hunter College since 2010, she was the 2016 Playwright In Residence at Rutgers University and currently mentors directors at NYU's Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Her recent production of The Way They Live (The Civilians) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was featured in The New Yorker’s "Favorite Cultural Moments of 2015." Mia is currently in post-production on her new short film, Full Disclosure. In residence in 2018, she worked on her newest play, a surreal riff on a true story, about what is found when we allow ourselves the freedom to truly get lost. She had just finished directing a site-specific production of her episodic play entitled nothin's gonna change my world.
Mia Rovegno
Studios
Cheney
Mia Rovegno worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…