Pronouns: she/her

Marie is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Performance and Director of The Acting Program at Sonoma State University in the Bay Area. She has an M.F.A. in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University, and a B.A. in Theatre Arts, Acting from California State University, Fresno. She is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher via Kristin Linklater and the Linklater Center for Voice and Language in NYC.  Marie is also a director, performer and a scholar. Her 2022 production of Water By The Spoonful (SSU) received many commendations, an invitation for encore performances, and two national awards from the Kennedy Center for “A Brave Rehearsal Space”, and a “Citizen’s award”. Her latest workshop entitled, “Performing Shakespeare, Voice, Movement, and Intersectionality” was presented in La Paz, Mexico in July 2023 at the Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association (VASTA) International Conference where she is The Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access and served a board term 2019-2022. Marie has coordinated and taught in many innovative theatre and voice courses for CSU Summer Arts including, “Theatre and Social Change: Politics, Performance, and Vocal Power, “Performance of Identity: Past and Present Voices Meet, “Latinx Voices on Stage: Community Lineage and Performance, and her latest course “Shakespeare & Company: Voice, Heritage, and Community” will run in the summer of 2024 and feature several of our training faculty as guest artists. Marie worked as an actor with Patsy Rodenburg on Shakespeare’s Sonnets at the National Opera Center in NYC and was invited to the Classical Ensemble workshop in Portugal in 2024 TBD. Marie most recently directed and closed Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights at SSU in February of 2024.