MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS
MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS
Wesleyan University Theater Dept.
275 Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT
Phone: 347-489-8242
1. EDUCATION
Academic
M.F.A. in Acting, National Theatre Conservatory, 2007
B.A. in Theater Studies with Honors, Yale University, 2001
Professional
Certificates:
Level I: Intimacy Coordination, IDC, 2023
National Alliance of Acting Teachers Development Program, 2018
National Yoga Alliance, Yogaworks (200-hour teacher training), 2011
New York Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare Lab, 2004
Master Acting Classes:
Ron Van Lieu, Chekhov & Tennessee Williams Scene Study, The Actors’ Center, 2021-Present
Patrick Page, Shakespeare, The Actors’ Center, 2024
Peter Francis James, Shakespeare, The Actors’ Center, 2021
Audition Technique Intensives:
Ted Sluberski, The Actors’ Center, 2024
Marcia DeBonis, The Actors’ Center, 2022-2023
Erica Jensen, The Actors’ Center, 2021
Voice/Body:
The Lucid Body with Fay Simpson, 2020-Present
Movement with Raja Feather Kelly, 2024
Feldenkrais with Sita Mani, 2023
Singing with Matt Farnsworth, 2013-Present
Singing with Marishka Wiezerbizci, 2022-Present
Physical Theater with Will Davis, The Actors’ Center, 2022
Movement with Dawn Saito, The Actors’ Center, 2021
Michael Chekhov Acting Technique with Joanna Merlin, 2019
Clown Workshops:
Clown with Chris Bayes, The Actors’ Center, 2021
Clown with Jane Nichols, The Actors’ Center, 2020
On-Camera Intensives:
On-Camera Acting with Welker White, The Moving Frame, 2022-2023
On-Camera Acting with Bob Krakower, 2022
On-Camera Acting with Heidi Marshall, 2021
Writing Workshops:
Playwriting with Jaclyn Backhaus, The Actors’ Center, 2023
Screenwriting with Darcy Fowler, 2023
Playwriting with David Henry Hwang, The Actors’ Center, 2022
Playwriting with Migdalia Cruz, The Actors’ Center, 2021
Solo Writing, Seth Barrish, The Barrow Group, 2021
Languages
English, Spanish, All Dialects (IPA)
2. APPOINTMENTS
Academic
Assistant Professor of Theater, Wesleyan University, 2019-Present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater, Yale University, 2020-2021
Adjunct Professor of Acting, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 2014 –2019
Lecturer, Yale University, 2013
Lecturer, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2007
Professional
Founder/Master Acting Teacher, inspīra Studios, NYC, 2019-Present
Acting Teacher, Broadway Workshop, NYC, 2018-Present
Acting Teacher, Stella Adler Conservatory, NYC, 2015-2019
Acting Teacher, Primary Stages, NYC, 2016
Drama Teacher, Denver Center Theater Academy, 2004-2007
Teaching Artist, Shakespeare in the Boroughs-The Public Theater, 2004
Drama Teacher, Children’s Aid Society, 2003-2005
Drama Teacher, Children’s Aid Society Wagon Road Camp, 2003
3. ARTISTIC ACTIVITY AND SCHOLARSHIP
3.1 Theater Productions (2019-Present)
Full Acting Resume with previous credits available here
Professional Stage Credits, Bio, News & More Broadway World, 2001-Present
Professional Stage Credits: Playbill, 2001-Present
IBDB, Broadway Credits, 2001-Present
Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy
Performed the role of Church Lady on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winner and Tony-nominated play, Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Austin Pendleton, starring Stephen McKinley Henderson, Helen Hayes Theater NYC, NY, January-February 2023
Broadway National Tour: Hadestown
Performed the role of Persephone in the Broadway National Tour of Hadestown, winner of 8 Tony awards, including Best Musical, created by Grammy Award winner, Anais Mitchell, directed by Tony Award winner, Rachel Chavkin. Toured numerous cities in U.S. and Canada, including Toronto, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Ottawa, St. Louis, Houston, Washington, D.C., Louisville, Cincinnati, San Jose and Little Rock, September 2022-October 2022; April-September 2023
Off-Broadway: Cymbeline
Performed the roles of Belarius and Queen in Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, translated by
Andrea Thome and directed by Stephen Brown-Fried. A modern-verse, all-Asian, all-femme production by NAATCO, the National Asian American Theater Company in partnership with Play on Shakespeare at Classic Stage, NYC, NY, December 2024-February 2025
Off-Broadway World Premiere: A Woman Among Women
Performed the role of Tina in A Woman Among Women by Julia May Jonas, directed by Sarah Hughes and with music and music direction by Brian Cavanagh-Strong. A world premiere and co-production with New Georges and the Bushwick Starr, NYC, NY, September-November 2024
Regional World Premiere: Kiss My Aztec!
Performed the role of Tolima in Kiss My Aztec! written by Tony Award winners, John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, music and lyrics by Benjamin Velez and David Kamp, directed by Tony Taccone. A world premiere co-production performed at the following theaters:
Berkeley Rep, Berkeley, CA, June-July 2019
La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, CA, August-September 2019
Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT, June-July 2022
Regional/International World Premiere: Parable of the Sower
Performed the role of Emery Solis in acclaimed activist and singer, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon’s opera adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, directed by Eric Ting. Performances at the following venues:
The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, October 2019
UCLA, January 2020
UNC, September 2019
NYU Abu Dhabi, September 2020
Apollo Theater, August 2019
3.2 Workshops and Readings: New Plays and Musicals
Actor in developmental workshop a new musical, That Girl by Ari Afsar and Rehana Lew Mirza at the 2025 National Music Theater Conference Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, July 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new musical, Telo by Julián Mesri, directed by Rebecca Martínez, Signature Theater, NYC, NY, June 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new play, Heart of Parasite by Minna Lee, directed by Francesca Sabel, Pipeline Theatre Company, NYC, NY, May 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new musical, Weirdo by Aaron Gonzalez, Brian Quijada, and John Leguizamo, directed by Aram Rappaport, New York Theatre Workshop, NYC, NY, May 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new play, The Kit: Made by Martha by Jeanne Dorsey, directed by Jackson Gay. New Georges, NYC, NY, April 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new play, my utopias, by Jay Stull, directed by Jillian Jetton, La MaMa Galleria,, NYC, NY, March 2025
Actor in developmental workshop of a new musical, Oscar at the Crown: The Distopian Dance Musical, by Mark Mauriello and Andrew Barrett Cox, directed by Shira Milikowsky. The Neon Coven, NYC, NY, March 2025
Actor in reading of I Don’t Believe in Fairies by Elizabeth Narciso, directed by John Gould Rubin. LAByrinth Theater Company Barn Series, NYC, NY, February 2025
Actor in reading of The Protege by Lynn Green starring Carla Gugino, directed by Tony Award winner, Lonny Price, NYC, NY, December 2024
Actor in developmental workshop of a new political satire, Lifestyle, by Oscar award winning filmmaker, Adam McKay, directed by Andrew Scoville, NYC, NY, December 2024
Actor//Singer in Papermill Playhouse’s developmental workshop of How to Write Dirty Books by Rachel Shukert, directed by Tony-Award winner, Moritz Von Stupenagel, NYC, NY, October 2024
Actor in reading of Telo, a new musical by Julián Mesri, directed by Rebecca Martinez, Signature Theater, NYC, NY, October 2024
Actor in the LAByrinth Intensive reading of I Don’t Believe In Fairies by Elizabeth Narciso, NYC, NY, August 2024
Actor in the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference workshop and reading of Madre de Dios by Marvin González De León, directed by Laurie Woollery, Waterford, CT, July 2024
Actor in reading of Anton Dudley’s new play Eloise Scrogg Gets Stuck In Central Park. The Playwright’s Realm, NYC, NY, June 2024
Actor in Checkmark Productions’ Summer Reading Series workshop of Castillos de Plástico by La Daniella, directed by Cristina Angeles, New York Theatre Workshop, NYC, NY, June 2024
Actor in reading of acclaimed playwright Migdalia Cruz’s play Never Moscow, directed by Lisa Rothe, produced by The Tent Theater Company and The Sol Project, NYC, NY, June 2024
Actor in developmental workshop of Venturous Fellow Jessica Huang’s new play, Mother of Exiles directed by Artistic Director Pirronne Yousefzadeh at Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN, May 2024
Actor in reading of a new play, Our Hood by Tony Award winner, John Leguizamo, to fundraise for educational and artistic programming at Center at West Park, NYC, NY, May 2024
Actor in reading of The Kit: Made by Martha by Jeanne Dorsey, directed by Jackson Gay, Bechdel Project, NYC, NY, April 2024
Actor in developmental reading of a new play, The Other Americans by John Leguizamo, NYC, NY, March 2024
Actor in developmental reading of a new play, Folies A Deux by Lyn Greene, directed by Lonnie Price, NYC, NY, March 2024
Actor in developmental reading of a new musical, The District by Julie Benko, directed by Brandon Dirden, NYC, NY, March 2024
Actor/Singer in developmental workshop of Como Correr, a new hip-pop musical by Nico Raimont, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. January 2024
Actor in developmental reading of cunnicularii a new play by Sophie McIntosh, directed by Nina Goodhart. Good Apples Collective, NYC, NY, November 2023
Actor in reading of an excerpt from Mass Extinction! by Jessica Huang, directed by Caitlin Sullivan produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, in partnership with the Sloan Foundation and the American Museum of Natural History, at the AMNH, NYC, NY, November 2023
Actor/Singer in reading of Kiss My Aztec! by Tony Award winners, John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, music and lyrics by Ben Velez and David Kamp, NYC, NY, October 2023
Actor in developmental reading of a new play, The Matts by John Leguizamo, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, The Public Theater, NYC, NY, April 2023
Actor in reading of a new play, Antigones by Anna Ziegler, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Keen Company, NYC, NY, December 2022
Actor in reading of a new play, Things With Friends, written and directed by Kristoffer Diaz, Keen Company, NYC, NY, December 2022
Actor/Singer in Just in Time, a new musical about Bobby Darin, written by Tony Award winner John Logan, directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers and starring Tony nominated actor Jonathan Groff. NYC, NY, January 2022
Actor in reading of Rebecca Martinez & Julián Mesri's Mobile Unit musical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, directed by Rebecca Martinez, with music by Julián Mesri. NYC, NY, August-September 2022
Actor/Concevier in developmental reading of The Case of The Saint, The Singer, and The Supreme, co-written by Migdalia Cruz and Maria-Christina Oliveras. NYC, NY, August 2022
Actor in workshop of a new play, Reggie Hoops by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Chanel Bragg. Portland Center Stage, NYC, NY, August 2022
Actor in reading of The Naughtiest Girl by Chris Cragin-Day, directed by Michael Parva, Vineyard Theater, NYC, NY, August 2022
Actor in reading of a new play, Shared Sentences by Emily Joy Weiner, directed by Lisa Rothe, NYC, NY, July 2022
Actor in reading of Sasha Ginger Hank by Mariana Carreño, directed by Daniel Jaquez, LAByrinth’s 22nd annual Barn Series, NYC, NY, April 2022
Actor/Singer in workshop of a new musical, Dragon Baby, part III of a trilogy of plays, written by SaraPorkalob, directed by Andrew Russell and music by Brian Quijada, American Repertory Theatre/A.R.T., NYC, NY, March 2022
Actor/Singer in developmental reading of a musical adaptation of Prelude to a Kiss, book by Craig Lucas, music by Dan Messe, lyrics by Sean Haggerty, directed by David Ivers, South Coast Repertory Theater Commission, NYC, NY, November 2021
Actor in developmental screenplay reading of A Song for the Recycled Orchestra, written and directed by Oscar nominee, Jose Rivera, NYC, NY, October 2021
Actor in developmental reading of a new screenplay, Don’t Ask Alice by Liz Narciso, directed by Michelle Bossy, NYC, NY, November 2021
Actor/Singer in developmental workshop of a new Broadway bound musical, Night at the Museum with music by Alan Menken, book by Shawn Levy and Bob Martin, lyrics by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler, directed by Donna Fiore, Warner Bros., NYC, NY November 2021
Actor in developmental workshop of Man Cave by John Caswell, Jr., directed by Taylor Reynolds, Page 73 Productions, NYC, NY, October 2021
Actor in developmental reading of a new musical by Lynn Rosen, Pia Wilson and Katie Gamelli, music by Grammy Award winner Paula Cole, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, TheaterWorks Silicon Valley via Zoom. July 2022
Actor/Singer in reading of a new musical, We Won’t Sleep by America's most produced playwright Lauren M. Gunderson and singer and songwriter Ari Afsar, directed by Erin Ortman, starring Tony Award winner Karen Olivo. Signature Theater, NYC, NY, December 2021
Actor in Guild Hall’s Wendy Wasserstein Festival, playing the title role of Heidi in The Heidi Chronicles, directed by Jackson Gay. East Hampton, NY, June 2021
Actor in world premiere Zoom production of BadAss GalBoss Power Hour by Wall Street Journal “Playwright of the Year 2017,” Kate Hammill, directed by Tony Award winner, Moritz vonSteupenagel, Primary Stages. Sept-October 2021
Actor in Zoom reading of Content by Daniel Stagger directed by Patricia McGregor, Second Stage, NYC, NY, May 2021
Actor for a Zoom reading of [...] in the time of Corona, Fault Line Theatre Company, May 2021
Actor/Singer in 24-Hour Viral Musicals performing an original song and monologue by Morgan Siobhan Green and celebrated songwriter Lauren Pritchard, 24 Hour Plays. May 2021
Actor in the Zoom reading of Football play by Pulitzer-Prize finalist, Kristoffer Diaz, with the American Blues Theater, February 2021
Actor in developmental workshop Zoom reading of an Untitled Agatha Christie Project by Heidi Armbruster, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, November 2020
Actor in Zoom reading of Bad Daughter with Tony-Award winning Wesleyan alum, Frank Wood, and Tony Award nominee Mary Testa, April 2020
Actor in Zoom reading of Frida and Remedios by Sandra Daley, The Actors Center, April 2020
Actor in Zoom reading of Concrete Jungle, a new musical by Bobby Cronin directed by Scott Ebersold, March 2020
Actor in Zoom reading of Never Moscow by Migdalia Cruz, directed by Lisa Rothe, Kansas City Rep, March 2020
Actor in Playbill’s Stars in the House Zoom reading of Stephen Sach’s Bakersfield Mist with award-winning actors, Tony Shaloub and Brooke Adams, March 2020
Actor in a pre-Broadway reading of Betty’s Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang, directed by Tony Award Winner, Moritz Von Stuelpnagel, NYC, NY, February 2020
Actor in a reading of a new musical commission by Anton Dudley for Virginia Opera, NYC, NY, January 2020
Actor in a workshop presentation of Blocked, a new musical by Ben Wexler, Theaterworks/USA, NYC, NY, January 2020
Actor in a developmental workshop of Fluff by Sigrid Gilmer, Clubbed Thumb, NYC, NYC. January 2020
Actor/Singer in developmental workshop of a new musical, Fountain of You by Faye Ciao, New Georges, NYC, NY, December 2019
3.3 Workshops and Readings: Classic Plays
Actor in The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe directed by Jesse Berger, Red Bull Revelation Series. NYC, NY, March 2025
Actor in Goodbye, My Fancy by Fay Kanin, starring Maggie Siff directed by Jess Chayes, Classic Stage Company Rediscovery Reading Series, NYC, NY, February 2025
Actor in Camino Real by Tennessee Williams directed by Austin Pendleton, La Femme Productions, NYC, NY, December 2024
Actor in The Beast of Hungary by Lope de Vega, directed by Nadia Guevara; Hispanic Golden Age, a multi-part initiative by Red Bull Theater and Diversifying The Classics | UCLA, NYC, NY, September 2024
Actor in The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish, directed by Kim Weild. Red Bull Theater Revelation Series, NYC, NY, March 2022
Actor in Love is the Greater Labyrinth, directed by Melia Bensussen, Artistic Director of Hartford Stage, produced by Red Bull, Repertorio Español, in collaboration with Diversifying the Classics | UCLA. NYC, NY, Sept-October 2021
3.4 Performances in Film/TV (since 2019)
Actor in table read of TV show, The Equalizer, starring and produced by Queen Latifah, airing on CBS, March 2024
Guest Star Actor as Detective Bea Johnson on Blue Bloods, airing on CBS, January 2024
Voice Actor in the award-winning short film, Retreated, by David Blasher, directed by Julia Kots, October 2023
Actor in award-winning short film, Matthew, Winner of Best Drama Short at the New Jersey Film Awards, awards at New York International Film Awards, Cannes World Film Festival, Oniros Film Festival, and Los Angeles Film Awards, June 2021
Recurring Guest Star Actor as Deputy Mayor Esme Reyes on NCIS: NOLA, currently airing on CBS. Season 7, Episodes 4 and 9. Directed by Levar Burton, starring Scott Bakula, December-January 2020-21
Singer/Actor for animated short film, Old Country with award-winning composer, Benjamin Velez, December 2020
Singer in Music Documentary of Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music, HBO Max, 2023.
3.5 Cabaret
Writer, Producer, Actor, Creator of an upcoming solo cabaret piece, On Saints and Sinners, at the acclaimed 54 Below Cabaret space, Spring 2026
Writer, Producer, Actor, Creator of an original solo cabaret piece, entitled The Glory of Love at the acclaimed 54 Below Cabaret space, Music Directed by Andrea Grody (Broadway’s Tootsie and The Band’s Visit), May-August 2021
3.6 Voiceover
3.6.1 Demo Recordings
Singer for a Demo Recording of Never Enough, from a new musical by Anton Dudley, November 2019
Actor in the role of Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, opposite David Hargreaves as Prospero, produced by Shakespeare at Home, October 2020
3.6.3 Video Games
Voice Actor for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto, August 2024
3.7 Writer/Creator
Writer, Creator of Summertime, an adaptation of Picnic, by William Inge, Spring 2026
Writer, Creator of Sonia and Bernadette, in collaboration with acclaimed playwright Migdalia Cruz and Wesleyan student, Malaika Fernandes (‘23), Summer 2022
3.8 Original Cast Recordings
“Here Lies Love”
Music & Lyrics by David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim
Nonesuch Records
May 2014
Celebrate AMERICAN UTOPIA's Opening With a Look Back at HERE LIES LOVE!
“Pretty Filthy”
Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman
Ghostlight Records
November 2016
“Amelie”
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Messe and Nathan Tysen
Warner Classics
May 2017
“The Abominables”
Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman
Michael Friedman Legacy Project
Ghostlight Records
October 2019
4. INVITED MASTER CLASSES AND LECTURES
“The Art of the Monologue: A Boot Camp Intensive,” Broadway Workshop, 2024
“The Art of Auditioning,” Broadway Workshop, 2024
“Representation on the Stage: Re-Exploring Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in John
Leguizamo’s Our Hood,” The Center at West Park, 2024
“New Works’ Development and Collaboration,” New York University Dramatic Writing
Program, 2023
“Hard Work, Resilience and Manifestation," New York University Grad Acting Program,
2023
“Girls Empowerment," Broadway Workshop, March 2023
“Storytelling Magic," Broadway Workshop, Summer 2022
“Sparking the Imagination," Broadway Workshop, Summer 2021
“Art and Activism," Harvard University, Spring 2021
Musical Theater Scene Study, Montclair State University, Winter 2020
“Finding Character," Broadway Workshop, 2016-2020
“Acting for the Camera: The Transition from Stage to Film," Kenyon University, Fall 2020
“The Actor Gets Started: Transitioning into the Professional World," Princeton University, 2018-2020
“Collaboration and New Work Development," New York University, 2019
“Art vs. Commerce," SUNY New Paltz, 2017-2019
“Auditioning for Musical Theater," Berkeley Rep School of Theater, 2015 & 2019
“The Actor Gets Started: A Primer for the first 6 months out of College," Yale University,
Office of Career Services, 2015-2019
“Latinos in Theater," Yale University, La Casa Cultural, 2018
“A Career in the Arts," Educational Center for the Arts, 2018
“Acting as a Business," University of Iowa, 2016
5. REVIEWS AND PRESS
5.1 Interviews and Features
5.1.1 National Press
Matthew Rauch, Andy Grotelueschen, and More to Star in THE JEW OF MALTA at Red Bull Theater 2025
Playbill Cast Announcement: All-Femme, Asian-American Revival of Cymbeline to Play Off-Broadway | Playbill 2025
TheaterMania Cast Announcement: New Georges Announces Its 2024-25 Season - TheaterMania.com 2024
ABC7 News Interview: Hadestown’s Maria-Christina Oliveras, ABC 7 News, 2023
Broadway World Feature: Words From The Wings: Maria-Christina Oliveras of BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY on Her Favorite Backstage Moments, and More! 2023
Ebony Magazine Interview: “Tony Award Nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson of The Rich Tapestry of ‘Between Riverside And Crazy’,” Ebony Magazine, 2023
Playbill Feature: Hadestown Actor Maria-Christina Oliveras Has Been to Hell and Back, 2023
Broadway World Interview: Maria-Christina Oliveras of HADESTOWN at The Orpheum Theatre & San Jose Center For The Performing Arts Is Thrilled to Return to the Bay Area, 2023
Broadway World Interview: Words From The Wings: Maria-Christina Oliveras of BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY on Her Favorite Backstage Moments, and More! 2023
Cast Announcements 2023
Maria-Christina Oliveras Joins the Cast of BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY
Maria-Christina Oliveras joins cast of ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
Maria-Christina Oliveras joins 'Between Riverside and Crazy' Broadway cast | New York Theatre Guide
Tennessean Feature: 'Hadestown' brings heat, heartache and hope to Nashville 2022
NBC CT Live! Interview: Maria-Christina Oliveras on Kiss My Aztec 2022
Broadway World: Maria-Christina Oliveras Talks KISS MY AZTEC!, the Importance of LatinX Stories and Our World "Getting Browner" 2022
Broadway World Feature: People To Watch In Cabaret and Concert In 2022
Broadway World: Maria-Christina Oliveras of THE GLORY OF LOVE at Feinstein's/54 Below August 6th 2021
Playbill Video Feature: Watch Broadway’s Maria-Christina Oliveras in the Return of Elevator Pitch 2021
The Interval: A Roundtable with Laurie Woolery and the Women of El Huracán at Yale Rep 2019
Broadway World Interview: Maria-Christina Oliveras Talks KISS MY AZTEC!, the Importance of LatinX Stories and Our World "Getting Browner" 2019
5.1.2 Wesleyan Press
Wesleyan in the News - May 2025
Wesleyan Connection:
Wesleyan Argus:
“The Ground on Which We(s) Stand(s)” and Why We(s) Need(s) BIPOC Theater
Wesleyan Connection:
The Second City Teaches Improvisation to Wesleyan students
5.2 Reviews
5.2.1 Cymbeline, NAATCO, January-February 2025
2025 Drama Desk Awards Nominations- The Full List, April 30, 2025
Nominated for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play
‘Cymbeline’ Delights Off Broadway - New York Times, Feb. 1, 2025:
“the excellent Oliveras”
Cymbeline - The Front Row Center, Jan. 25, 2025:
“Oliveras was a maddening tornado to reckon with as the Queen, a total powerhouse of a part”
Cymbeline - Off Off Online, Jan. 29, 2025:
“Oliveras inhabits the evil Queen with a swaggering, take-no-prisoners attitude.”
Cymbeline: Shakespeare Lite, More Rephrased Than Actually Done - New York Stage, Jan. 26, 2025:
“the delightful artist to savor is Maria-Christina Oliveras, who boldly depicts contrasting individuals. Oliveras adeptly changes soul, sex and vocal register to believably turn into old Belarius, a hearty laird of the woods.”
“Maria-Christina Oliveras is an evil queen to remember; she is also authoritative as
Belarius, who drives much of the plot in the second half.”
“But perhaps the finest performances come from Maria-Christina Oliveras, who has magnetic gravitas as both the villainous queen and Belarius — a retired woodsman turned loyal warrior…”
NAATCO’s all-femme, all-Asian Cymbeline aims to shake up a classic - INTO, January 23, 2025
“But far and away the best performance comes courtesy of Maria-Christina Oliveras, pulling double duty as both the murderous Queen and the woodsman Belarius. As the Queen, she’s a classically camp and fabulous villain, with a sharp wit and bold red lipstick to match. And as Belarius, she delivers this production’s most compelling monologue in the play’s final scene, showing a degree of emotional authenticity that, regrettably, is largely lacking elsewhere from this company.”
5.2.2 A Woman Among Women, The Bushwick Starr, October-November 2024
A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in ‘A Woman Among Women’ - New York Times, Oct. 23, 2024
A Woman Among Women at the Bushwick Starr - Exeunt Magazine NYC, Oct. 20, 2024
“You feel the long history between Cleo and Tina in Pelletier and Oliveras’ every exchange”
Worlds on the Brink: Walden and A Woman Among Women - Vulture, Nov. 7, 2024
“Maria-Christina Oliveras, sharp and dangerous”
A Woman Among Women Breaks in the New Bushwick Starr - TheaterMania.com, Oct. 19, 2024
A Woman Among Women - The New Yorker, Oct. 11, 2024
5.2.3 Hadestown National Tour, 2022-2023
“Oliveras at first appears to be a fun-loving goddess of spring, but as she peels back her shell, she shows a struggling woman trying to cope. Her voice shines throughout, but her ability to emote and convey Persephone’s desire for love in the heavier emotional scenes of the second act is gripping.”
Hadestown at Mirvish Productions - Intermission Magazine, Jul. 8, 2023
“Maria-Christina Oliveras as Persephone and Hannah Whitley as Eurydice, too, are lovely foils of each other, endlessly watchable and nuanced in their development of tortured, hopeful women.”
Hadestown is hellishly good - So Sumi, Jul. 14, 2023
“The ride is still worth taking, especially with performers like… the strutting, sultry Oliveras”
Hadestown is a triumphant, timely retelling of an age-old myth - The Globe and Mail, Jul. 9, 2023
“Meanwhile, Oliveras’s Persephone, a classy lady in a verdant green gown, evokes such blues
queens as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. As an embodiment of spring, Oliveras takes a little
time to warm up, but by the second act she’s in full life-force mode, making a sympathetic plea
on behalf of Orpheus to her callous husband.”
‘Hadestown’ at the National Theatre, MD Theatre Guide, Jun. 10, 2023
“The cast is brimming with vocal, dramatic, and comic talent… Persephone (Oliveras) is particularly charming in “Our Lady of the Underground,” a number that sees her making the best of her time in Hades by pouring drinks at a speakeasy.”
'Hadestown' spins a moving story of love, loss and hope - Fredericksburg, Jun. 7, 2023
“Maria–Christina Oliveras stars as Persephone, a force of nature, often with a drink in hand.”
Spring Has Come Again To The National Theatre - Ashley and Company, Jun. 8, 2023
“The heart and soul of this show is not Orpheus and Eurydice but the springtime deathly duo of Persephone and Hades. Their unlikely love affair has intrigued humans for eons. Oliveras and Quinn have a lot riding on their shoulders and like Graham are more than ready for it all. For her part, Oliveras is brash, gutsy, and frazzled. She nails the cheeky, drunken parts as well as the heartbreaking moments. The love Persephone has for Hades even after all these years is still very clear under the surface of the hurt she has experienced.”
HADESTOWN at National Theatre - Broadway World, Jun. 8, 2023
“Persephone (a lively Maria-Christina Oliveras)”
Mind-blowing and heart-stopping ‘Hadestown’ plays the National - DC Theater Arts, Jun. 9, 2023
“Oliveras’ Persephone is sultry and passionate, and the couple clash their egos and desires wonderfully.”
Head way down to Hadestown at Washington DC’s National Theatre – HOTCHKA, Jun. 7, 2023
“Maria-Christina Oliveras is Persephone, a benevolent god who brings everyone in the speakeasy food and wine … lots of wine. She also gets to really cut up in the Act II opening number ‘Our Lady of the Underground’, and she brings a lot of layers to the character, torn between her love of Hades and her love for the people above ground.”
'Hadestown' is a hell-raising good time - Spectrum News, May 3, 2023
“Audiences are really in for a treat from Oliveras. I was obsessed with her charisma, iridescent vocals and layered emotive performance. I was elated every time she took the stage — and she’s hard to miss. Her initial lime green dress matches her sunny personality. Oliveras is truly a bright spot on stage and a near flawless foil to Hades.”
HADESTOWN is Livin' It Up at Milwaukee's MARCUS CENTER - Broadway World, May 5, 2023
“Oliveras is straight-up fun to watch in her very party-girl take on the queen of the underworld. In brassy songs, she brings big personality to the stage, and in more-serious moments, the genuine beauty and strength of her voice shines.”
“Played by Maria-Christina Oliveras, the wife of Hades is complicated and delusional, but a rock star at the same time.”
“Oliveras' Persephone, the goddess of the seasons, is perhaps the number one person I'd like to invite to a house party. She brings levity to the show, first in her lime green dress and maybe a little bit drunk behavior in Act I then to her borderline raunchy yet funny performance of "Our Lady of the Underground" in Act II. She's clearly a pros-pro, evident in her heartfelt plea to Hades in songs like "How Long?" and brings big talent to a stage already filled with it.”
It’s An Old Song (Broadway in Louisville) - Arts Louisville, May 18, 2023
“Most of the other characters, had directly flirty and fun relationships with the audience, especially Maria-Christina Oliveras’s endearing and outre Persephone.”
“Played by Maria-Christina Oliveras, the wife of Hades is complicated and delusional, but a rock star at the same time.”
5.2.4 Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy - TheaterScene.net, Feb. 1, 2023
“But it’s the introduction of a character in the second act, the enigmatic Church Lady (Maria-Christina Oliveras), who epiphanically propels Between Riverside and Crazy towards its forced conclusion… It’s an extraordinarily well-acted scene that Henderson and Oliveras build to a near show-stopping climax”
“That is until one of those visits revitalizes him in one way, but throws him down in another, thanks to the miraculous visitation from this one particularly engaging Church Lady, played to the heavens by Maria-Christina Oliveras (Broadway’s Amélie).”
“in one of the wackiest sex scenes on Broadway (shared with a churchgoer played with gusto by Maria-Christina Oliveras)”
Between Riverside and Crazy **** – theaterlife, Jan. 4, 2023
“Between Riverside and Crazy is filled with dramatic and comedic surprises and twists, like the vivid scene in which a visiting church woman (a terrific Maria-Christina Oliveras) manages to combine the highly sexual with the intensely spiritual in her ministration to Walter of God’s love.”
'Between Riverside and Crazy' a must-see - StageZine, Jan. 4, 2023
“Maria-Christina Oliveras as Church Lady gives a performance that has to be seen to be believed. It is outrageous in the most flattering of ways.”
“Maria-Christina Oliveras as the shockingly unholy Church Lady.”
5.2.5 “Kiss My Aztec!”, Hartford Stage, 2022
'Kiss My Aztec' at Hartford Stage: Great Fun, Music and Performances. Go! — Showriz, Jun. 16, 2022
“Maria-Christina Oliveras takes command in every scene.”
“There are some wonderful performers in the ensemble, like… the hysterical Maria-Christina Oliveras, who is on the theater faculty at Wesleyan University.”
KISS MY AZTEC! at Hartford Stage - Broadway World, Jun. 14, 2022
Maria Christina Oliveras (as Tolima)… powerhouse vocalists with unbelievable chops.”
5.2.6 “The Glory of Love”
“Like any good storyteller, Maria-Christina knows how to make an entrance, how to own the room, how to work the crowd, and in this nightclub act worthy of bookings in Atlantic City or Las Vegas, she showed off those skills to such an extent that you might find yourself wondering if you heard wrong, if this is really her debut solo act.”
“MCO glorious in glory of love”
“She was marked from birth to be in front of an audience and it showed in every moment”
6. RECOGNITION
Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Cymbeline, 2025
Faculty Fellow, Wesleyan University’s Embodying Anti-Racism Initiative Faculty Fellow, 2023
Independent Shorts Award for Best Ensemble Cast of Matthew, 2023
New Jersey Film Award for Best Ensemble of Matthew, 2021
Broadway World Nomination for Best Cabaret, The Glory of Love, 2021
Broadway World Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Kiss My Aztec, 2019
7. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Member, Actors’ Equity Association, 2001-Present
Member, SAG-AFTRA, 2013-Present
Associate Artist and Board Member, The Civilians, 2019-2021
Founding Member, Partial Comfort Productions, 2004
Volunteer/Performer, 52nd Street Project, 2007-2019
Member, The Actors’ Center Workshop Company, 2016-Present
8. TEACHING
Curricula:
Inside the (Virtual) Actors’ Studio - Academics - Video at Wesleyan
Maria-Christina Oliveras: Acting I and Acting II - Academics - Video at Wesleyan
8.1 Courses Taught and Class Visits
8.1.1 Courses Taught at Wesleyan University
Theater Arts
THEA 145, Clash of the Titans FYS*, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025
THEA 235, Acting I, Spring 2020, 2021-2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024,
Spring 2025
THEA 285, Acting II, Fall 2019, 2020, 2021
THEA 285, Acting II Intensive: It’s All Greek To Me, Spring 2023
THEA 385Z, The Working Actor*, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
THEA 386, Musical Theater Performance*, Fall 2023, Fall 2024
THEA 485, Acting for the Camera, Winter 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2025
Tutorials
THEA 491/492, Teaching Apprentice Tutorials, 2020-Fall 2024
THEA 409/410, Senior Thesis/Capstone, 2019-Present
THEA 329, Technical Theater Practice, Spring 2023
THEA 427/28, Performance Practice, 2023
THEA 401, Tutorial, Writing an Original Musical, Fall 2023
THEA 430, Performance Practice Senior Project, Fall 2023
8.1.2 Courses Taught at Other Universities
Yale University
MUSI 228, Musical Theater Performance, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
THEA 210, Acting, 2014
Fordham University
THEA 210, Acting I for Majors, 2014-2015
THEA 110, Introduction to Acting for Non-Majors, 2015-2019
THEA 435, Acting for the Camera, 2016
THEA 410, Senior Industry Showcase, 2019
University of Colorado-Boulder
THEA 110, Invitation to Theater, 2007
8.1.3 Class Visits to Other Universities
“Art and Activism," Harvard University, 2021
Musical Theater Scene Study, Montclair State University, 2020
“Acting for the Camera: The Transition from Stage to Film," Kenyon University, 2020
“Latinos in Theater," Yale University, La Casa Cultural, 2018
“The Actor Gets Started: A Primer for the first 6 months out of College," Yale University, Office of Career Services, 2015-2019
“The Actor Gets Started: Transitioning into the Professional World," Princeton University, 2018-2020
“Collaboration and New Work Development," New York University, 2019
8.2 Academic Advising/Mentorship
8.2.1 Departmental Productions
Intimacy Consultant
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, a thesis production directed by Tabitha Davidson ’25, Spring 2025
Voice and Acting Consultant
The Game of Love and Chance, a thesis production directed by Sophia Flynn ‘25, Fall 2024
Intimacy, Voice and Acting Consultant for Thesis Advisee, Bailee Gull ‘24
Wolf Crush by Hagen-Brice Walker, directed by Professor Alex Keegan, Fall 2023
Voice and Acting Consultant
Phoebe in Winter by Jen Silverman, a thesis production by Ava Grob ‘20, Spring 2020
Advisor
Sweat by Lynn Nottage, a student production in Spring 2020 (production subsequently canceled due to Co-Vid)
8.2.2 Senior Capstones and Theses, Tutor
Lincoln Turner ‘25
Actor in Production: Of Government by Agnes Borinksy, directed by Professor Katie Pearl, CFA Theater, Fall 2024
Kiera Moran ‘24
Actor/Writer in Original Production: Likewise written and performed by Kiera Moran, directed by Bannon Brody ‘24, Wesleyan Theater Studio, Fall 2023
Bailee Gull ‘24
Actor in Production: Wolfcrush by Hagen-Brice Walker, directed by Professor Alex Keegan, CFA Theater, Fall 2023
Abby Meyers ‘22
Actor/Writer in Original Production: To Play Or Not To Play written and performed by Abby Meyers, directed by Akash Bhide ‘22, Wesleyan Theater Studio, Fall 2022
Milton Espinosa ‘21
Actor in Production: Oedipus Del Rey by Luis Alfaro, directed by Professor Katie Pearl, CFA Theater, Fall 2021
8.2.3 Senior Theses, Reader
Sophia Flynn, 2025
Essay: Triangulation, A Bridge Across Time: Methods of Directing Classic Theater
Production: The Game of Love and Chance by Pierre de Marivaux, at the Patricelli ‘92
Echo Shen, 2024
Essay: Tragedy in Chinese Spoken Drama: The Collision Between Western Thoughts and
Domestic Culture During New Culture Movement
Lila Poppel, 2024
Essay: Theater Without Production: Celebrating the Psychological Benefits of
Theatermaking
Isabelle Chirls, 2023
Essay: Make the Roof Cave In:Writing Queer Experience on the Page and the Stage
Anna Buchmueller, 2022
Essay: Theater Cannot be a Monologue: Interrogating the Lack of
Ideological Diversity in the American Theater
Production: Heroes of the 4th Turning by Will Arbery, at the Patricelli ‘92
Nathan Mullen, 2020
Essay: Pájaros en la Boca
Nika Litt, 2020
Essay: Many a New Day: The Uncanny in Reproductions of Oklahoma
8.2.4 Independent Tutorials
THEA 402: Kiera Moran, Spring 2024
Transitioning into the Professional World
THEA 401: Maggie Monighan, 2024
Creating an Original Musical: Not Really Strangers
GLS Student, John Degon, Spring-Winter 2020
Acting & Auditioning
8.2.5 Faculty-Student Research Internship
Malaika Fernandes (‘23), Summer Dramaturg/Assistant
Sasha Estime (‘27) Summer Dramaturg/Assistant
8.2.6 Independent Student Coachings and Mentorship
Coordinator of Wesleyan NYC Alumni Events for mentees including attendance at Malaiaka Fernandes’ (‘23) public reading of Mulaqat at The Playwrights Realm, NYC, NY, April 2025
Mentor to Jasmine Donald (‘28) coordinating meetings with partner at Paul Weiss, to further
support Jasmine’s pursuit of law firm internships
Mentor to actor and Wesleyan Alum and Julliard Graduate, Naomi Okada (’20)
Mentor to Scarlett Long (‘23), coordinating meetings with outside mentor Meiyin Wang,
Artistic Programming Director at the Perelman Center, NYC.
Teacher of Workshops on Grad School and Life Beyond for Theater Majors, Fall 2019-Spring 2021
Teacher of Audition Workshops-Monologues for Current and Prospective Theater Majors, Summer 2020
Teacher of “Finding and Cultivating Opportunities” Workshop with Students in the Pandemic
and Beyond, March 2020
Teacher of Individual Coaching for Auditions, 2019-Present
9. COLLEAGUESHIP AND SERVICE
9.1 To the University
9.1.1 Committees
Member, Web Governance Committee, Spring 2025
Member, Committee to Coordinate Second City improv Troupe Visit, Spring 2022
Member, Committee to Coordinate Toshi Reagon Residency, December 2020-2022
Member, Committee convened by Dean Roger Grant to think critically and creatively about how to keep each other safe and comfortable while performing during the upcoming academic year, Summer 2021
9.1.2 Public Programs
Creator, Coordinator and Moderator of "Re-Evaluating the Ground on Which We(s) Stand(s)." Inspired by August Wilson’s 1996 keynote address to the Theater Communications Group, The Ground on Which I Stand, this initiative was a series meant to amplify voices of BIPOC artists and engage the community in conversations about the challenges of BIPOC theater in white spaces. The inaugural event was a three-part series in Fall 2020:
Part I-Dramatic Readings/Conversation: “An Evening with Broadway's Crystal Dickinson (Clybourne Park and You Can’t Take It with You on Broadway; Showtime’s The Chi) and Brandon Dirden” (Martin Luther King, Jr. in All the Way starring Bryan Cranston and Jitney on Broadway; FX’s The Americans; Netflix’s The Get Down). Due to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom's imminent Netflix/HBO release whereby they performed excerpts by Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dominique Morriseau. These excerpts served as anchoring points to engage the Wesleyan community in direct conversation with the work, its themes, and its resonance and relevance today, particularly in our efforts to decenter whiteness from our curricula.
Part II-Panel: A conversation with Associate Professor Rashida MacMahon
Part III: Master Class conducted by Crystal Dickinson and Brandon Dirden
This series developed into the subsequent annual series, Breaking New Ground, dedicated to hosting BIPOC artists and leaders of excellence for various campus-wide programming including panels, workshops and performances.
Moderator and Coordinator of Breaking New Ground Series:
Conversation via Zoom with Tony and Emmy-nominated actor, William Jackson Harper, April 2025
Workshop on Auditions and Self-Tapes with Casting Director Erica Jensen, April 2025
Conversation via Zoom on the Film/Television Industry with Casting Director, Erica Hart, March 2024
Conversation via Zoom with Talent Manager and Founder of CHI Talent Management ChiChi Anyanwu, March 2024
Conversation via Zoom with NAATCO Artistic Producing Director and actor Mia Katigbak, April 2024
Conversation via Zoom with Juilliard graduate and Wesleyan alum Naomi Okada ‘20, April 2024
Conversation via Zoom with Natalie Cortez, acclaimed Broadway performer, October 2024
Conversation via Zoom with the cast of Yale Rep’s world premiere of Falcon Girls and acclaimed writer, Hilary Betis, November 2024
Conversation via Zoom with Grammy-winning Broadway, film and television actor, Nathan Lee Graham, November 2023
Director and Performer in Musical Theater Concert introducing the Musical Theater Performance Class to Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University Board of Trustees Dinner, 2024
Speaker, “Wes Side Story: Bringing Broadway to the Wesleyan Community," Wesleyan University Presidential Luncheon Series, 2024
Moderator and Coordinator of conversation with acclaimed producer and curator, and Producing Director of the Ronald Perelman Performing Arts Center at World Trade Center, Meiyin Wang, November 2021
Volunteer for WesWork’s Forklift, a multi-site, outdoor performance featuring the work, skills, and stories of Wesleyan’s essential workers. Developed through an 18-month residency and a 7-year collaboration with Austin TX-based Forklift Danceworks, WesWorks connected students, staff, and faculty through a community-based dance-making process, October 2021
Director of Performance for Professor Jesse Nasta's course, “AFAM307: Black Middletown Lives: The Future of Middletown’s African American Past” (re)creating/ (re)interpreting/ (re)imagining texts and performances from concerts (combining songs and recitations) put on by Middletown's African American church in the late 1800s, amping the rich over-looked history and significant contributions of African Americans to the Middletown community, May 2021
Coordinator in hiring of celebrated cellist, David Blasher to compose and perform original music for a performance with Professor Jesse Nasta’s students in the course, “AFAM307: Black Middletown Lives: The Future of Middletown’s African American Past,” May 2021
Panelist, Wesleyan University Office of Admissions Faculty of Color Panel. With Dr. Ishita Mukerji - Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Integrative Science & Environmental Studies, Director of CIS , Dr. Anthony (Tony) Hatch - Associate Professor (and Chair) of Science in Society, African American Studies, Env. Studies and Dr. Ying Jia Tan - Assistant Professor History and East Asian Studies, April 2021
Facilitator of Solidarity Spaces for all via Zoom, leading meditation, and holding space and conversation, specifically centered around anti-AAPI hate/violence, March 2021
Facilitator for student moderators for Cardinal Connections talk with Tommy Kail, March 2021
Coordinator and Moderator of talkback with cast of Long Wharf’s production of The Chinese Lady, with AAPI artists, Jonathan Norman Schneider and Shannon Tyo, and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Artistic Director, Ralph Pena, who is one of the leaders of the WE SEE YOU WHITE AMERICAN THEATER movement, November 2021
Coordinator with Professor Katherine Brewer Ball, to bring Wesleyan University alum,
Miranda Haymon ‘16 to direct the Theater Dept. Zoom Production of Pedro Prieti’s The Masses are Asses, April-May 2021
Facilitator Moderator for Cardinal Connections talk with Wesleyan alumna and Managing Director of the Vineyard Theater, Suzanne Appel, December 2020
Moderator for “Unpacking Kristina Wong for Public Office,” talk with Kristina Wong, Doris Duke Award-winning performance artist, actor, writer and comedian, for Center for the Arts, November 2020
Member of Task Force led by Dean Roger Matthew Grant exploring performance practice in light of social distancing and Co-Vid restrictions, March-June 2020
Coordinator and Moderator of conversation with Peter Kim, acclaimed Asian-American activist, writer, actor and producer, who was granted the TCG Rising Leader of Color Grant in 2020, is one of the founders of the Asian American Performing Arts Coalition, and serves as Associate Artistic Director for the National Asian American Theater Company, April 2020
Coordinator with Center for the Arts, Center for Humanities, the African American Studies Department, and Professor Katherine Brewer Ball to host Toshi Reagon for a conversation on the development of her opera adaptation of Parable of the Sower, Spring 2020
Collaborator and moderator for Center for the Arts on campus workshop and performance with award-winning solo performance artist, Nilaja Sun, November 2019
9.2 To the Theater Dept.
Faculty Search Committees
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Stage Management (chair, Katie Pearl), 2025
Assistant Professor of Theater in Voice/Movement (chair, Ronald Jenkins), 2021
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Costume Design (chair, Marcela Oteíza), 2021
Department Liaison to student performing arts groups
SPARC, Fall 2024-Present
Spike Tape, Fall 2024-Present
Major Reps, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
SHADES, Wesleyan Theater’s BIPOC Affinity Group, Spring 2020-Present
Second Stage, Spring 2020
Faculty Liaison to Alumni Network and Coordinator of Special Events, 2022-present
Host and Coordinator of Wes Theater Alumni Reunion Fest 2022
Coordinator of Alumni Event Welcoming the Class of 2022
Coordinator of NYC Alumni Event attending Ma-Yi Theater Company’s production of Once Upon a Korean Time, produced by Wesleyan Alum, Scott Schneider ‘87, August 2022
Faculty Liaison spearheading nomination of Beronica Guerrero-Canguí for the Morgenstern Employee Award, April 2025
Department Liaison between Pamela Grande, Associate Director for Career Advising of the Gordon Career Center and Theater Department, facilitating alumni talks, industry guests, student moderators, and development panels, Spring 2021 – Present
Facilitator with Professor Lauren Yeoman to host a Breaking New Ground performance and workshop by Kimyee Corwin and celebrated violinist, Jane Chung, April 2025
Facilitator/Faculty Liaison for Breaking New Ground, a fund which was established from the umbrella series, The Ground On Which We(s) Stands which I spearheaded and developed with The Theater Dept. in Fall 2020, 2019-Present
Casting Consultant for Professor Joshua Lubin-Levy, Director of the Center for the Arts, for Anna Deveare Smith’s year-long artist residency, August-October 2024
Coordinator of Resume/CV Workshops conducted by Theater Dept Faculty, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
Producer, Creator and Director of a public performance and featuring the Musical Theater Performance Class, December 2024
Speaker, Meet the Makers: Career Conversation with Maria-Christina Oliveras, February 2024
Speaker, Spike Tape Musical Theater Career Roundtable, October 2024
Moderator of Theater Dept. Panel on Summer Opportunities in Theater, February 2024
Faculty Advisor to guest Visiting Assistant Professor of Acting, Erin Gorski, Spring 2024
Advisor of The Elephant Is Very Like by Ankita Raturi, a workshop and staged reading featuring Wesleyan students and produced by Wesleyan alumni in collaboration with the Center for the Arts, Spring 2024
Coordinator of Grad school round table/discussion, 2019-Present
Producer, Creator and Director of Cabaret Night, a public performance and featuring the inaugural Musical Theater Performance Class, Fall 2023
Producer and Director of a staged reading of Professor Edwin Sanchez’s new play, Lottery Boy, featuring Wesleyan students, Fall 2023
Coordinator of supplemental skills building workshops including auditioning, musical theater dance, and vocal performance for student productions, Fall 2023
Facilitator and Moderator of Zoom conversation with Wesleyan Alum Sivan Battat, Fall 2023
Coordinator of talkbacks with casts of Yale Rep, Hartford Stage and Goodspeed, Fall 2023-Present
Faculty Liaison for student internships with Goodspeed Opera House, Fall 2023
Contributor to External Review, spearheading the Acting Curriculum of Theater Dept, 2021
Coordinator with Professor Ronald Jenkins on chartering the Wes in NYC program, and secured internships with Stewart Talent, The Civilians, the Vineyard, Live-In-Color and The Playwrights’ Realm. Program halted due to Co-Vid, November 2019-February 2020
Committee Member for selection process and Subsequent Advisor for the Wesleyan students selected for the JMF Writers’ Colony of the Goodspeed Opera, Spring 2020
Coordinator with Center for the Arts to host Welker White and Damian Young conducting a workshop of THE MOVING FRAME for my Working Actor class, April 2020
Speaker of the Theater Dept. for WesVising Platform, Spring 2020
Lead Contributor/Coordinator of Departmental Conversation on crafting our Anti-Racist statement, and subsequently drafted statement with Professor Katie Pearl, Spring 2020
Moderator of Roundtable Conversation with Obie-award winning costume and set designer, Machine Dazzle, Fall 2019
9.3 To the Field
Member of Selection Committee for New Candidates for The Actors’ Center, Spring 2025
Performer at The Civilians benefit, honoring Stephen Trask, the award-winning composer and lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring 2025
Guest artist for Broadway Workshop and YWCA Of Westchester—A female-empowerment workshop: the Y focuses primarily on creating programming for marginalized communities that center on femme empowerment, Spring 2025
Guest artist for Hunter High School students attending Cymbeline, Spring 2025
Mentor for young artists through the Actor’s Center Mentorship Program, 2024-2025
Coordinator and Host of The Actor’s Center year-end party to facilitate collaborations among artists and build relationships among the company, June 2024
Actor in benefit reading of a play, OUR HOOD by John Leguizamo, to fundraise for educational and artistic programming at Center at West Park, May 2024
Host and Auctioneer for Hartford Stage’s annual gala fundraiser, “Diamonds are Forever,” featuring Tony-Award winner, Andre DeShields, in support of educational and artistic programming, May 2024
Member of the newly-founded Asian American Theater Artists Collective to uplift AAPI theater-makers, January 2024
Singer at the Benefit for The Lucid Body Theater Studio, December 2023
Member of The Actors’ Center, serving as a reader for fellow actors, coach, and producer of many events and classes, 2023
Panelist for multiple talkbacks with communities in cities across the U.S. and Canada for the Broadway National Tour of Hadestown, Spring-Summer 2023
Panelist for Broadway’s Between Riverside and Crazy Talkbacks with the Community, Winter 2023
Panelist for Hartford Stage and Kiss My Aztec! Talkbacks with the Community, Spring/Summer 2022
Recommender for Patrick Mulryan for Voice/Movement Tenure Track Positions at The Juilliard School, Brown University and Brooklyn College, Spring 2022
Performer at The Civilians benefit, honoring co-founder of NAATCO Mia Katigbak and Obie Award-winning director Les Waters, Spring 2022
Producer and Actor in Sparks’ Mount Sinai Medical Documentary Series, educating and empowering young parents with newborns, Fall 2021-Winter 2022
Panelist for Yale University’s Fridays @ Five Panel, “Reimagining the American Theatre” with Tony-Award winning costume designer, Clint Ramos, Obie Award Winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee Eisa Davis, and Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage and founder of Artists Anti-Racism Coalition Stephanie Ybarra, Fall 2021
Coordinator/Moderator for Yale University’s Fridays @ Five Panel, “Asian American Pacific Islander Artists’ in Predominantly White Institutions.” November 2021
Acting/Self-Tape Coach for The Actors’ Center, a collective of professional working actors including Tony Award winner, Tonya Pinkins, Judy Kuhn, Linda Powell and Malcolm Getts, 2021-Present
External Reviewer for Anton Dudley for Tenure as Associate Professor at Kenyon College. November 2021
Producer of ZOOM presentation of Duchess Carpathia by Anton Dudley, April 2021
Adjudicator for 2021 Princess Grace Award at New Dramatists, Spring 2021
Adjudicator for Ancram Opera House’s Summer Series 2021
Board Member for The Civilians, original creators and producer of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Fall 2019-Spring 2021
Guest host of Live in Color’s BE OUR GUEST series, interviewing Tony Award winner Ruthie Ann Miles and Grammy award nominee Frances Jue, Winter 2020
Singer for Broadway for Biden Benefit with KISS MY AZTEC!, Fall 2020
Singer for VIVA Broadway Benefit-KISS MY AZTEC!, Fall 2020
Panelist for Broadway Con’s Diversity in the Theaters, 2019-2020
Producer, Actor and Collaborator, with fellow Wesleyan University Professor of the Practice, Edward Torres, on a developmental workshop of Salt, by Migdalia Cruz at New Dramatists in NYC, April 2020
Artistic Advisory Board member for Live in Color (formerly Bingham Theater Camp), 2017-2019
Panelist, Back to the Future/History Matters, NYC, 2018
Reader, Sundance Institute NYC, 2017-2021
Adjudicator Fordham University Theater Program, NYC, 2017-2021
Mentor for Yale Playwrights’ Festival with fellow Wesleyan professor, Edwin Sanchez, Fall 2019