credentials

(I swear to christ this is more for me and my therapist than vanity.)

Angela Harmon graduated from Rutgers University-Camden in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts and a minor in Graphic Design, and in 2011 with a New Jersey State Teaching Certificate to teach K-12 Theater. She was very active in RU-C’s theater department, both on and off stage, where she worked under Paul Bernstein, Dr. Kenneth Elliott, Jim Mobley, and Nancy Ellis. In 2009 she co-created the Student Directed One Act Festival which remains part of the school’s annual season. She was nominated twice for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for her performances as Dorine in Tartuffe and Dr. Seward in Dracula. At the 2009 ACTF hosted by University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Angela had the opportunity to perform in one of the awarded one act plays at the Merriam (now Miller) Theater. Other favorite roles include Gertie in Fuddy Meers, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Hannah Pitt/Ethel Rosenberg in Angels in America. She completed her student teaching at Cherry Hill High School East under the director of the theater program, Tom Weaver. For several years Angela did regional theater in Philadelphia, most notably as Assistant Director to Kathryn MacMillan in the world premiere of The Bends, a play by Megan Mostyn-Brown at the Flashpoint Theater.

In 2014 Angela began writing film, television, and cultural criticism under the blog The Nitpic, and has also written for Uproxx, Phindie, and the Broad Street Review. She has represented Phindie several times as press for the Philadelphia Film Festival, and at the 2019 PFF interviewed Harriet director Kasi Lemmons at a screening of the film. In 2018 she was selected as part of the first round of individually-approved critics on Rotten Tomatoes, an effort spurred by the #MeToo movement to bring greater gender equity to the aggregate scores. 

In 2022 Angela graduated from The New School with a master’s degree in Media Studies with a concentration in Media History, Criticism, and Philosophy. Her thesis was a critical examination of rape on television in the era of Peak TV and as seen through a post-#MeToo and popular feminist lens. Her thesis advisors were Assistant Professors Josh Scannell and David Bering-Porter.

A month after graduating Angela was awarded a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship to participate in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute, a 12-day writing intensive and the leading arts-writing workshop for professional journalists, under director Dr. Chris Jones, chief theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, and associate director Naveen Kumar, theater critic for the Washington Post.

In 2024 Angela launched Square Peggy, a small stationery business named after her rescue dachshund Peggy Olson.

All of this happened because Angela’s mother made her a swimmer as soon as she could and because her brother made her go see Lord of the Rings and because her father cleared the path and because her husband is the trunk of her tree.