Be confident in your choices.
Audition Coaching: In-Person Or Virtual
Maria focuses on the individual actor’s sense of self and personal perspective to bring their unique point of view to the characters they portray. Coaching is available for both audition preparation and self-taping.
On-Set Coaching & Character Prep
On a film set or stage, many actors benefit from real-time support to fully embody their characters. Maria can provide personal coaching through rehearsal, filming, and performances.
Certified Intimacy Coordinator
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 certified intimacy professional*, working with actors to develop confident choices for auditions and on-set. She has worked with actors on sets all over the world, and her clients have booked meaningful roles in TV and film. In 2023 Maria 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 at Pace University since 2018, and is a frequent guest lecturer at acting programs across the country. She is based just outside of New York City with her husband, 2 kids, and rescue pup.
*certified by Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), 2026
