“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 multi-hyphenate in every sense of the word, Simone Policano is an actor-writer-producer from an Italian-Jewish-Puerto Rican family. By age nine she was trilingual in English, Spanish, and Yelling. Born and bred on the Upper Best Side of New York City, she spent her early years sharing the Hunter College Elementary School stage with Lin-Manuel Miranda* and accosting everyone with her Eliza Thornberry impression. She’d show you pictures but she’s burned them.
(*Same stage, different decades. A girl can dream.)
She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American Studies with a focus in Theatre and Performing Arts. While at Yale she performed with the Yale Dramatic Association and wrote and performed with Red Hot Poker, Yale's premier sketch comedy group. She also feels fancy when she uses words like "premier."
Simone has been seen in the Tribeca Film Festival, on Comedy Central, IFC, The New Yorker, and, frequently, the A train. She has the immense privilege of recurring on Blue Bloods as the long-lost daughter of Treat Williams—who, in a deeply flawed industry, set the gold standard for how we should treat one another. She will be forever grateful for his four years of kindness, mentorship and dear, dear friendship. She has also guest starred on New Amsterdam and currently has three feature films streaming on Amazon Prime: sci-fi drama Auggie (opposite Richard Kind); psychological thriller This Is Our Home, which she produced and starred in; and Extra Innings, a heartfelt family drama set against the backdrop of 1960’s Brooklyn. Up next you can hear her in a scripted audio drama produced by Audible.
She finished The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway and only got trapped in the on-stage grandfather clock once! She just closed cityscrape, a new play written by NYTimes Critic’s Pick playwright Sophie McIntosh. She has also performed in the NYC Fringe Festival, and at The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals and The Tank.
Her comedy writing has been published on Lorne Michael's digital comedy hub Above Average, and she wrote angsty Thought Catalog pieces back when that was a thing. When she's not acting or putting words together to make them funny, you can find her binge-watching Severance and quietly coming to terms with the fact that no one will ever understand her like her Spotify Discover Weekly playlist.
Last but certainly not least out of left field: during the COVID-19 pandemic she co-founded Invisible Hands, a nonprofit that delivers groceries and essential supplies to the elderly and immunocompromised. Invisible Hands amassed over 10,000 volunteers at the height of the pandemic in New York City and was featured by Fox and Friends, Andrea Mitchell Reports, Good Morning America, the Associated Press, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among others. They received awards from the Robin Hood Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Points of Light and Grant Thornton, and were also named among 2020’s Top Philanthropists by Town and Country magazine alongside Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Governor Andrew Cuomo. She’ll let you know when she’s processed literally any of that.
She also thinks writing in the third person is bizarre, so she's going to stop now.
