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 maintain boundaries and artistic vision.
Meet Maria
Maria has been a private acting coach since 2016, working with actors on auditions that have booked series regulars, guest stars, and co-stars. She has coached actors on sets all over the world for television, film and theater. In 2021 she began training as an intimacy professional, and in 2023 expanded her work with actors to include intimacy and consent-based practices. Including over a decade of work as a casting professional, Maria has been working with actors to hone their choices for 20 years.
Maria has a BA in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, and is an LGBTQIA+ and DEI advocate, consent educator, 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.