Be confident in your choices.
Audition Coaching
Maria focuses on the individual actor’s sense of self and personal perspective to bring their unique point to the characters they portray. Coaching is available for both audition preparation and self-taping.
Workshops
Each group workshop encourages actors to explore their unique qualities, helping them improve their character portrayal. Join us to unlock your potential and enhance your skills through a stronger connection to your story.
Character Prep: Virtual or On-Set
On a film set or stage, many actors require real-time support to create their best art. Maria can provide personal coaching through rehearsal, filming, and performances.
Intimacy Coordinator & Director
Maria works with all production disciplines and facilitates conversations between actors, director, and other departments to tell intimate stories with boundaries and artistic vision.
Meet Maria
Maria is a New York City-based acting coach and intimacy professional, working with actors to hone their choices for auditions and on-set since 2016. She works with actors on sets all over the world, and coaches with clients whose auditions have booked series regular roles for television as well as lead roles in feature films. In 2021 she began training* as an intimacy professional, and since 2023 has expanded her work with actors to include intimacy coordination for TV and film as well as intimacy direction for theater. Including over a decade of work as a casting professional, Maria has been working with actors for over 20 years.
Maria has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She has been an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at acting programs across the country, is a consent educator, an LGBTQIA2S+ and DEI advocate, and certified in Mental Health First Aid and bystander intervention. She is based just outside of New York City with her husband, 2 kids, and rescue pup.
*certification pending, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC)