MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS
Service to the Field
Select photos of various events and benefits I have participated in. For a full list, please click here.
Host at Hartford Stage Gala honoring Andre DeShields, Spring 2024.
Performer at multiple benefits for the award-winning off-Broadway theater company, The Civilians, where I served on the Board from 2020-2021.
Host for "Be Our Guest" series with Tony winner, Ruthie Ann Miles and Tony nominee, Francis Jue.; also pictured: Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids benefit music video by "Kiss My Aztec" cast.
Master Teacher for Broadway Workshop, an arts education organization based in NYC for aspiring professionals.
In solidarity with fellow SAG-AFTRA members
Service to the Field Credits
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
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
Board Member for The Civilians, original creators and producer of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Fall 2019-Present
Panelist for Broadway Con’s Diversity in the Theaters, 2019-2020
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
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