Artist Profile
MARYA MAZOR is an award winning and critically acclaimed theatre director. Recent productions incude Donald Margulies’ The Model Apartment for The Geffen Playhouse, Tigers Be Still and Tribes at The Chance (OC Register Best Play 2017) and The Rescued (Stage Raw Award Nomination) at The Road Theater Company. Other favorite productions include Ivy & Bean at South Coast Rep, Out of Our Father’s House for the Edinburgh Fringe,That Pretty Pretty… or the Rape Play at Son of Semele, Mad Forest at the Open Fist, The English Bride at the Road, and The Goat (LA Times Critic’s Pick) as well as Aladdin for the Disney Cruise Lines. Her short film, The Winged Man, written by Oscar nominee Jose Rivera, was part of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women and played festivals worldwide. She is in development to direct a feature film, MOXIE, that she also wrote.
Marya spent six years as a show director for the Walt Disney Company. She also has directed at The Long Wharf Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, New York Stage & Film, Nada, Dixon Place, Main Street Theatre, Circle X, The Boston Court, International City Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Asian American Theatre Company. Marya founded Voice & Vision theater in New York, which she ran for 10 years. She was an NEA/TCG Directing Fellow and holds an MFA from Yale. She has taught at USC, Pepperdine, UCLA, California State University Long Beach, The New School, Fordham and other colleges.
