Bio
A retired Army brat, Marie was graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Arts in Theater Arts from the University of Texas at El Paso. A Los Angeles-based, professional story addict with expertise in three-act Aristotelian plot structure, she’s an alumna of the super cool Disney Writing Program and a top ten finalist of the fabulous Nicholl Fellowships for her first screenplay. As a selected participant of the amazing American Institute Directing Workshop for Women (AFI-DWW), Marie directed the uber-talented Dakota Fanning (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Watchers) in Marie’s AFI short, Father Xmas.
Next, Marie hit the ground running as a cohort in the wonderful Producers Guild of America Diversity Workshop, where she developed the concept and sizzle reel for her television reality series spec, The High Roller. She earned her “Produced By” credit on the festival-winning comedy feature, It’s Not You, It’s Me, starring Joelle Carter (Justified), Ross McCall (Band of Brothers, White Collar), Eric Avari (The Mummy, The Chosen), and Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2).
Marie studied improvisational acting and comedy writing at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Subsequently, her feature spec romantic comedy romp, Frenchalicious, is set to go out to producers. As a professional voice-over actress, Marie has written, narrated, booth directed, and produced audiobooks for Audible, including Zwoosh! one of two children’s picture books she’s authored. Marie created the characters and voices for her animated, children’s television pilot, Zabble and Zibble Quibble, currently in development. You can catch her vocal stylings for commercial and audiobook clients at MarieRose-Voiceovers.com.
Now that we’ve covered some of her bona fides, Marie has been having a blast traveling to several U.S. locales, including cruising to Alaska, gaming on the Vegas Strip, and exploring New Orleans. All the weather whiplash serves to gather research and content for a new travel & lifestyle social media channel she created, Wanderlust for Two.
Her travel adventures included some sites with reputed paranormal activity which fueled inspiration for her new, hour-length TV pilot spec, Lily Shade’s Otherworld, and other stories featuring inexplicable phenomena. Marie’s father, a West Point Colonel with government Secret Clearance, shared declassified stories of real government programs that sounded as if they were plucked from the X-Files, igniting Marie’s voracious imagination. This may explain why Marie leans into blending paranormal, fantasy, and/or Sci-Fi plotting with suspense, action, and lively humor.
Compounding her interest in supernatural stories, Marie grew up in a city with “the most haunted high school in America” that’s famous among paranormal investigators, and where she and others may have seen some things she can’t explain… but she’s happy to mine them for inciting incidents and plot twists.
Affiliations: The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), Alliance of Women Directors, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and IATSE Local 700 Story Analysts Guild
Creative development clients have included: The Walt Disney Studios, Nickelodeon, MGM/UA, New Regency, Village Roadshow, Force Entertainment (Parent-Stuber), Icon Productions, ABC, and the Disney Channel.
Marie’s Fun FAQs
A: Marie moved to The City of the Angels on the day the L.A. Riots commenced, showcasing her impeccable timing.
A: Marie managed apartment buildings for free rent while establishing herself in the industry. Using her amateur sleuthing skills, she helped the L.A.P.D. solve a few tenant-related mysteries, deaths, and crimes — perfect material for her upcoming story, Barely Managing, about the perils of apartment managing in L.A. She changed the names to protect the innocent from the guilty.
A: She impressively slept through most of the 6.9 Northridge Earthquake, despite being a mile from the epicenter.
A: How did you know? A police department hired Marie to pose as a police officer in improvised scenes during detective candidate interviews, allowing supervisors to gauge how well the candidates reacted to various work scenarios.
Marie goes all out to research her stories, even joining a ride-along with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in the gang-ridden streets of Watts, Los Angeles, to gather material for a story involving police procedure.
A: Marie credits her hard-working guardian angel with helping her to evade abduction three times in L.A., beat two cancer diagnoses, and fend off a mugger on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of NOLA.
A: Using her crime-fighting skills from her apartment manager days and her voice training to scream loud enough to pierce eardrums, Marie fought off a mugger on Bourbon Street and ID’d the perp to the police. They promptly arrested him and suggested in future that she leave the heroics to them. She got her $150 back and learned a valuable NOLA pro tip: never flash your cash on Bourbon Street.
A: She learns she’s a saucy sauce (also known as Thousand Island Dressing) and a sassy anime video game character with impossible Barbie measurements.
A: Marie’s encounters with the paranormal include sites like El Paso High School, The Queen Mary, The Hotel del Coronado, a historic converted Airbnb with a tragic past in the Treme section of NOLA on Halloween… and her laundry room drawer, which mysteriously opened every night—until she caught her prankster cat in the act.
A: Marie is unusually lucky at video slot machines, Texas Hold’em, and beating cancer.
A: Marie volunteers for the American Cancer Society and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Sneak Peeks
Wanderlust For Two
Making of Father Xmas
It's Not You, It's Me (Extended Trailer)
It's Not You, It's Me (Teaser Trailer)
The Movie Lovers
THE HIGH ROLLER
ZWOOSH! (Book Trailer)
A kitchen witch Film
THE LIVING (trailer)
SHELL GAME (short film)
PRESS & Gallery
