Maria fell into musical theatre through the fortuitous combination of her two longstanding passions, music and experimental theatre. Her first love was music, taking up the recorder at a very young age before transferring allegiances to the trombone, which has taken her on tour across Europe and to Japan, not to mention the Royal Festival Hall. Her singing started in various chamber choirs, progressing to Grade 8 distinction as a Soprano.

Maria has performed with theatre groups and independent production companies in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues across the South East and Midlands. Experience includes street and physical theatre, experimental theatre, improvisation and devised productions. She has also stage-managed, designed costumes and set, and co-directed. Somehow she never manages to find herself far from a stage, whether it is walking the boards, behind the scenes or in the orchestra pit!

Credits include: Charlotte Corday (“Marat/Sade”), Joanna (“Sweeney Todd”), Mary Magdalene (“Jesus Christ Superstar”), Rizzo (Grease), Tibalt (“Romeo and Juliet”), Antonio (“The Tempest”), Mulberry (“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui”), Peep Bo (“The Mikado”), Bunny (“Saucy Jack & the Space Vixens”), creating the role of Lucy in “Silver’s Ghost”, and everything from a Bond girl to a gangster, a lawyer angel to the embodiment of a deadly sin in an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.