Meet Mia

Mia Mintz is a New York/New Jersey-based singer, dancer, and actor with deep roots in the south. Her family’s home on two acres in Rosharon, Texas, is about an hour south of Houston — not exactly the musical theatre capital of the world. But with her family's support, a lot of hard work, passion, and excellent training, here she is.

Music came to Mia very early. Her mother stopped the jogging stroller dead in its tracks when she heard baby Mia babble-singing lyrics to ‘The Sound of Music’ before she could even form real words. When she didn't have a stage, she made her own out of the grocery store aisle, the living room, and anywhere else she could possibly find. Her mom had been a dancer, so she put Mia in classes when she was 3, and she continued to train in various styles — including ballet, tap, jazz, and hip hop — throughout her life.

Seeing shows at the local community theater introduced her to musical theatre, and when she finally turned 7, Mia was old enough to participate in their summer musical theater workshop for kids. She was disappointed at first when directors cast her as a parrot instead of an island girl, but she was hooked and came back to that program year after year.

Mia joined choir in middle school, but it was high school choir where she realized music and singing to be her true love. From there, Mia earned a spot in the Southwestern Association of Choral Directors honor choir twice -- traveling to Oklahoma City and Little Rock to perform before becoming a two-time Texas All-State singer — the highest honor you can achieve as a high school singer, earning a spot in the mixed choir both her junior and senior year. Mia's experience as an All Stater almost swayed her to pursue vocal performance over musical theatre for college.

Her choir director encouraged her to audition for a musical at a community theater, because her high school did not produce musicals at the time. At 16, she played teen Fiona in Shrek and fell in love with the process of putting together a show. She auditioned and was chosen to be part of the pre-professional program at Theatre Under the Stars -- Humphrey's School of Musical theatre, and her mom drove her an hour each way to Houston twice a week to take acting and dance. COVID cut that short, and Mia returned to competition dance. Her team went to Dance Worlds twice and placed 8th in the world in open co-ed Hip Hop.

The highly competitive college musical theatre audition process pointed Mia to Rider University, where she found a home with incredible training and supportive classmates. She learned everything she knows about musical theatre at Rider, and broadened what she can do artistically with the help of her professors Robin Lewis, T. Oliver Reid, and Dr. Neal Tracy, among many others.

Mia has yet to meet a musical style she couldn’t sing, excelling in pop/rock, contemporary & Golden Age musical theatre, classical, country, R&B, and so much more. She can tap into her authentic country accent or Hispanic heritage whenever the role requires. She has shown off her hip hop, jazz, Latin, and musical theatre dance skills in shows like The Prom, In The Heights, and soon, West Side Story. Mia’s performance quality has been described as fierce, confident, passionate, powerful, sassy, comedic, and versatile, which all lead back to one common denominator: "She has a presence that fills up a space."