“Simone Policano, in particular, was luminous.
Capturing the intricacies of vulnerability and pain within a boisterous character can prove difficult, and Policano navigated the divide effortlessly. she felt beautifully fragile, painfully alive.” — The Theatre Times
A native New Yorker and multi-hyphenate to her core, Simone Policano is an actor-writer-producer from an Italian-Jewish-Puerto Rican family. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American Studies, with a concentration in Theatre and Performing Arts.
Simone has been seen in the Tribeca Film Festival, on Comedy Central, IFC, and The New Yorker, among others. She was a recurring guest star on Blue Bloods as the long-lost daughter of the beloved Treat Williams, who was better than all of us and will live on forever in her heart. She also guest starred on New Amsterdam and has three feature films streaming on Amazon Prime: sci-fi drama Auggie (opposite Richard Kind); psychological thriller This Is Our Home (which she also produced); and 1960s family drama Extra Innings. She recently starred in the Audible comedy series Hit Singles, and comedy writing has been published on Above Average—the digital branch of Lorne Michael’s Broadway Video.
She just returned from starring in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced at the Singapore Repertory Theater. Before that she closed cityscrape, written by NYTimes Critic’s Pick playwright Sophie McIntosh, and finished The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway—where she only got trapped in the on-stage grandfather clock once! A win.
Last but certainly not least out of left field: during the pandemic she co-founded Invisible Hands, a nonprofit delivering groceries and medicine to communities vulnerable to COVID-19. The initiative exploded to 10,000+ volunteers and was featured by Good Morning America, the New York Times, and the Associated Press, among others. Invisible Hands received awards from the Robin Hood Foundation and Manhattan Institute, and landed Simone alongside Oprah and Dr. Fauci in Town and Country magazine’s 2020 Top Philanthropists list.
She’ll let you know when she’s processed literally any of that.
