Maria Cominis
- Actress
- Writer
MARIA COMINIS (Actor, Playwright) is a first-generation Greek American. Her career began in the theatre, touring the country with musicals and plays. Television Credits include: Hacks, New Girl, Desperate Housewives (recurring), All My Children, One Life to Live. Theatre: Bernarda Alba (LaChiusa), The Diviners, The Sea Gull, Ivanov, and many musicals including a CAMI National Tour. As a playwright, she is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Grant, a Semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neil National Playwrights Conference, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), for her full-length play, WOMEN OF ZALONGO.
In 2023, she was a Resident Artist in the HB Studio Rehearsal Space Residency, NYC. HB was her artistic home for a decade as an acting teacher and key student of Uta Hagen in Ms. Hagen's professional actor's class where she sat next to celebrity actors learning their craft.
She taught acting and acting for musical theatre at HB Studio, acting to film directors at USC School of Cinema and Television and a full Professor at CSUF since 2005 where she teaches acting in the BFA Acting Program. She authored, Rehearsing in the Zone, A Practical Guide to Rehearsing without a director, Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2020 and co-authored, Production Collaboration for the Theatre: Guiding Principles, Routledge, 2022.
She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, National Alliance of Acting Teachers and the Dramatists Guild where recently she placed as a semi-finalist in the Dramatists Guild Virtual Residency. Represented by MINC Talent Agency and Manager:Progyny Talent.
In 2023, she was a Resident Artist in the HB Studio Rehearsal Space Residency, NYC. HB was her artistic home for a decade as an acting teacher and key student of Uta Hagen in Ms. Hagen's professional actor's class where she sat next to celebrity actors learning their craft.
She taught acting and acting for musical theatre at HB Studio, acting to film directors at USC School of Cinema and Television and a full Professor at CSUF since 2005 where she teaches acting in the BFA Acting Program. She authored, Rehearsing in the Zone, A Practical Guide to Rehearsing without a director, Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2020 and co-authored, Production Collaboration for the Theatre: Guiding Principles, Routledge, 2022.
She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, National Alliance of Acting Teachers and the Dramatists Guild where recently she placed as a semi-finalist in the Dramatists Guild Virtual Residency. Represented by MINC Talent Agency and Manager:Progyny Talent.