Mia Paschal moved to San Francisco from Milan, Italy to study with Ed Hooks.
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Mia studied acting with David Wheeler; she later studied with Bill Hickey at the HB Studio in New York. In San Francisco, she has also studied with Bruce Williams and David Ford.
Mia has performed in a number of plays and independent films in the Bay Area. She produced and performed in Heroes Theatre Company's St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a collection of comedic and dramatic scenes about dysfunctional relationships. She produced, directed and acted in After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Maggie), Harold Pinter's The Lover, and Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra).
One of Mia's most personally gratifying theatrical experiences was performing in A Loud Little Handful, Greg Beuthin's site-specific production of works dealing with the aftermath of war and violence, directed by Emily Koch McNally. She also wrote, produced, and directed the digital feature The Art of Etiolation which premiered at the EXIT Theatre's DIVAfest in May 2004.
In September 2004, Mia presented her first solo performance some life at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and was awarded the Best Female Solo Performance award. The solo shows This Lily Was (Fontana) (2006), Along the Path of Larks and Swallows (2008), and Heartbreak Velocity (2010-2016) followed.
She made her singing debut in On the Sixes, a cabaret by Sean Owens and Don Seaver, which was part of the EXIT Theatre's 2006 DIVAfest, and her songwriting debut the following year, for the EXIT’s DIVA Cabaret. Mia participated in the Performance Initiative at the Marsh in San Francisco, where she was commissioned to write My Soul for Rubies, a solo piece exploring exile and loss. and The Slaughterhouse Trapeze, an examination of sex and death.
In 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned the site-specific solo performance piece, My Jim Dine Valentine. Later that same year, the Oakland Museum of California commissioned a children's story, Trevlig the Bay Bridge Troll.
In 2019, Mia's poem "If Love Were Something I Could Do" was published in the Copenhagen Review. As a writer in residence in the Brown Handler Writer's Residency Program, Mia performed in The Night of Ideas in San Francisco in February 2020, and later that year the city of Kiel, Germany commissioned a virtual reality installation about her experience under Covid quarantine, "I Dream Myself Out to the Edge of My Heart".
In San Francisco, Mia is represented by Tonry Talent.
photo: Jody Patterson
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Mia studied acting with David Wheeler; she later studied with Bill Hickey at the HB Studio in New York. In San Francisco, she has also studied with Bruce Williams and David Ford.
Mia has performed in a number of plays and independent films in the Bay Area. She produced and performed in Heroes Theatre Company's St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a collection of comedic and dramatic scenes about dysfunctional relationships. She produced, directed and acted in After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Maggie), Harold Pinter's The Lover, and Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra).
One of Mia's most personally gratifying theatrical experiences was performing in A Loud Little Handful, Greg Beuthin's site-specific production of works dealing with the aftermath of war and violence, directed by Emily Koch McNally. She also wrote, produced, and directed the digital feature The Art of Etiolation which premiered at the EXIT Theatre's DIVAfest in May 2004.
In September 2004, Mia presented her first solo performance some life at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and was awarded the Best Female Solo Performance award. The solo shows This Lily Was (Fontana) (2006), Along the Path of Larks and Swallows (2008), and Heartbreak Velocity (2010-2016) followed.
She made her singing debut in On the Sixes, a cabaret by Sean Owens and Don Seaver, which was part of the EXIT Theatre's 2006 DIVAfest, and her songwriting debut the following year, for the EXIT’s DIVA Cabaret. Mia participated in the Performance Initiative at the Marsh in San Francisco, where she was commissioned to write My Soul for Rubies, a solo piece exploring exile and loss. and The Slaughterhouse Trapeze, an examination of sex and death.
In 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned the site-specific solo performance piece, My Jim Dine Valentine. Later that same year, the Oakland Museum of California commissioned a children's story, Trevlig the Bay Bridge Troll.
In 2019, Mia's poem "If Love Were Something I Could Do" was published in the Copenhagen Review. As a writer in residence in the Brown Handler Writer's Residency Program, Mia performed in The Night of Ideas in San Francisco in February 2020, and later that year the city of Kiel, Germany commissioned a virtual reality installation about her experience under Covid quarantine, "I Dream Myself Out to the Edge of My Heart".
In San Francisco, Mia is represented by Tonry Talent.
photo: Jody Patterson
