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BIO
Mariana Newhard is a writer/actor specializing in hybrid/devised new work. She has been a member of the Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing Group (DTF WAW) since 2017 with whom she has been developing her full length play, Zenith. Last spring, an excerpt of her operetta Queen of the Nile, was presented as part of the DTF WAW’s Sanctuary benefit. Her first production, Assembled Identity (a co-creation with Kristin Marting and Purva Bedi) premiered at HERE Arts Center in Spring 2018, and received developmental support from DTF WAW, Drop Forge and Tool, NACL’s Deep Space Performance Resident Program, and as part of the 2017 Artist Residency Program of The Drama League of New York. The project also received support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, Disha Theatre, Mental Insight Foundation and Puffin Foundation.
She premiered her shorts BIg Leap, Alone and Perfect in 50 Ways at the Capital Fringe in D.C. in July 2018. Other plays include Andromache at the Edge of the World (in development) and Da Food is Da Food, developed with Packawallop Productions.
Mariana has been an invited artist to Drop Forge & Tool’s Z Forge workshops in the summer and winter of 2018. She has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop.
Mariana Newhard is a writer/actor specializing in hybrid/devised new work. She has been a member of the Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing Group (DTF WAW) since 2017 with whom she has been developing her full length play, Zenith. Last spring, an excerpt of her operetta Queen of the Nile, was presented as part of the DTF WAW’s Sanctuary benefit. Her first production, Assembled Identity (a co-creation with Kristin Marting and Purva Bedi) premiered at HERE Arts Center in Spring 2018, and received developmental support from DTF WAW, Drop Forge and Tool, NACL’s Deep Space Performance Resident Program, and as part of the 2017 Artist Residency Program of The Drama League of New York. The project also received support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, Disha Theatre, Mental Insight Foundation and Puffin Foundation.
She premiered her shorts BIg Leap, Alone and Perfect in 50 Ways at the Capital Fringe in D.C. in July 2018. Other plays include Andromache at the Edge of the World (in development) and Da Food is Da Food, developed with Packawallop Productions.
Mariana has been an invited artist to Drop Forge & Tool’s Z Forge workshops in the summer and winter of 2018. She has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop.
PLAYS
Andromache at the Edge of the World Dorset Theater Festival Women Artist Writing Group (DTF WAW)
-One act Reading projected for May 2020
Queen of the Nile DTF WAW Sanctuary Benefit, reading May 2019
-10 minute version (Currently in development )
Assembled Identity Here Arts Center/ April 2018
-World Premiere
Hybrid Multidisciplinary duet
-co-created with Kristin Marting and Purva Bedi
-developed with support from Drop Forge and Tool, Dorset Theatre Festival Women Artists Writing Group, NACL Deep Space Performance Resident Program, and the 2017 Artist Residency Program of The Drama League of New York
-additional support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, DIsha Theatre, Mental Insight Foundation and Puffin Foundation
Big Leap, Alone and Perfect Capital Fringe, Washington DC, July 2018
-three shorts presented as part of the production 50 Ways
Zenith DTF WAW September 2018
-developmental reading of full length play
Packawallop Productions, 2013
-Staged reading of excerpt
-currently in development
Da Food is Da Food Packawallop Productions, 2013
-Reading
Andromache at the Edge of the World Dorset Theater Festival Women Artist Writing Group (DTF WAW)
-One act Reading projected for May 2020
Queen of the Nile DTF WAW Sanctuary Benefit, reading May 2019
-10 minute version (Currently in development )
Assembled Identity Here Arts Center/ April 2018
-World Premiere
Hybrid Multidisciplinary duet
-co-created with Kristin Marting and Purva Bedi
-developed with support from Drop Forge and Tool, Dorset Theatre Festival Women Artists Writing Group, NACL Deep Space Performance Resident Program, and the 2017 Artist Residency Program of The Drama League of New York
-additional support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, DIsha Theatre, Mental Insight Foundation and Puffin Foundation
Big Leap, Alone and Perfect Capital Fringe, Washington DC, July 2018
-three shorts presented as part of the production 50 Ways
Zenith DTF WAW September 2018
-developmental reading of full length play
Packawallop Productions, 2013
-Staged reading of excerpt
-currently in development
Da Food is Da Food Packawallop Productions, 2013
-Reading