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Marisol Rosa-Shapiro ’07

Marisol Rosa-Shapiro

Marisol Rosa-Shapiro is a New York and Seattle-based performer, director, teaching artist and creator of original works of theater. She is a graduate of Giovanni Fusettiā€™s Lecoq-based Helikos School of Theatre Creation in Florence, Italy. Her specialties include mask theater, mime, clown, commedia dellā€™arte, improvisation, physical comedy, movement-based theater making and ensemble-based creation. Rosa-Shapiro has been a director, assistant director and producer for Princeton Summer Theater, McCarter Theatre Center, Signature Theatre Company in NYC, Yale Repertory Theatre and Jujamcyn Theaters. Her performing credits include American Bard Theaterā€™s The People, Convergences Theater Collectiveā€™s Babel, Barn Arts Collectiveā€™s Twelfth Night, and Spellbound Theaterā€™s Wink and The Last Coin. Her own red nose clown solo show, Here at Home, premiered in the storefront gallery space of a tattoo parlor in Philadelphia and has since toured to the NY Clown Theater Festival, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensembleā€™s Women’s Solo Performance Festival, Phillips Academy at Andover, MA, and Feast Arts Center in Tacoma, WA. She is currently directing Soledad Ensembleā€™s ā€œThe Seven Ravens Projec,ā€ which was part of the New Victory Theater’s LabWorks development program for theater for young audiences and families. She has worked as a teaching artist and facilitator for the New Victory Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, TADA! Youth Theater, LeAp NYC, Seeds of Peace, At The Well Young Womenā€™s Leadership Academy, Phillips Academy at Andover, Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Triangle Associates, Seattle Rep, Seattle Children’s Theater, Seattle Theatre Group, Village Theatre, ArtsCorps, the 5th Avenue Theatre, Partners for Youth Empowerment, and more. She is a proud volunteer performer and teacher with Clowns Without Borders.

Events

Events

Women in the Arts Showcase

Thursday, October 4

Please join us for the Opening Reception and Women in the Arts Showcase to hear from a select group of alumni artists and student groups, and participate in interactive/collaborative creative activities. The Opening Reception will kick off in the New South tent at 6:30 p.m., followed by various performances, displays, and activities in the tent and the Lewis Arts complex beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will also be work by visual artists on display throughout the weekend at Maclean House.

Women in the Arts Showcase ProgramĀ (PDF 52KB)

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