Be confident in your choices.

Audition Coaching

Maria focuses on the individual actor’s sense of self and personal perspective, and how their unique point of view can inform the characters they portray.

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 an acting coach and intimacy professional, working with actors to hone their choices on auditions and on-set since 2016. She coaches with clients whose auditions have booked series regular and guest star roles for television as well as feature films, and she works with actors on sets all over the world for television, film and theater. 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 BA 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, anticipated completion Spring 2025

Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC)