An international teaching-artist with over 35 years teaching and acting professionally, Marya has taught actors, singers, teachers and business professionals in the UK, France, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Italy, Canada, and across the U.S. Marya is a Roy Hart Theatre Voice Teacher, with over 20 years experience in the Roy Hart approach to voice. She is a founding member and resident actor with the Actors’ Shakespeare Project and a member of the MFA acting faculty at Brandeis University since 1989. Based in solid research of vocal lamentation practices around the globe, she pioneered its inclusion into theatre voice training and is the creator of Ecstatic Voice–from Laughter to Lamentation for Actor Training and Performance. As an actor and singer, Marya has performed extensively in NYC and Boston, for Shakespeare Festivals and Regional Theatres, as well as in France, Bulgaria and Canada.