Mia Daly is an operations and communications professional, vocalist, dancer, and the Managing Director of UZIMA! Drum & Dance Company.

Mia’s artistic life began early in New York City, where she performed her first starring role at age 10 in an off-off-Broadway production of Annie with the New York Youth Theater in Manhattan. She went on to study voice at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University before continuing her training at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with acclaimed bass-baritone Mark Schnaible, a member of the voice faculty at Brooklyn College and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

With a background in opera, musical theater, concert performance, and dance, Mia has performed roles including Mary in G-Train: The Musical, Mother in Hansel and Gretel, Maria in West Side Story, Sharpay in High School Musical, and Marian Paroo in The Music Man. She was recognized by the South Bend Tribune for her “powerful soprano voice, at once rich and clear,” and has also appeared as a soloist with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside her artistic work, Mia has built a professional career in operations, communications, and project management. She currently serves as Operations Manager for the Stokes Private Advisory Team at Compass, supporting a Manhattan-based luxury residential real estate practice. That professional experience now informs the way she supports UZIMA!, helping bring structure, care, and continuity to the company’s work.

Today, as Managing Director of UZIMA!, Mia helps carry forward the legacy of her mother, Kelly Burgét, UZIMA!’s founder and artistic director. Her mother shaped every part of who she is, teaching her not only how to be a performer, but how to be a mother, a sister, a friend, and a person who moves through the world with love, strength, discipline, and intention.

UZIMA!’s upcoming tribute performance with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame is deeply personal for Mia. It is a celebration of her mother’s artistry, faith, vision, and lasting impact, as well as the UZIMA! family her mother so lovingly gathered. To help honor that legacy alongside her sister Zoë and the company her mother built is one of the great honors of Mia’s life.