Mirah was involved with a number of "secret cafes" in Olympia, including The Red Horse Cafe which she and her roommate Ariana Jacob ran out of their one bedroom apartment. The Red Horse Cafe served a different menu every Sunday for a year and a half in 1998/1999. The Red Horse Cafe appears in the documentary short "9 Weeks". She was also involved with several large scale theatrical productions including "The Transfused", a 2000 rock opera written by Nomy Lamm and The Need.