Artist Profile
Marya Mazor’s professional career as a director has taken her from theater to immersive experiences, to film and digital tv series. Mazor recently directed the World Premiere of The World is Not Silent for The Alley Theatre and New York Stage & Film Company (Best Production/Play, Houston Press Awards). Her productions have received multiple LA Times Critic’s Pick designations, Ovation Award Nominations, and Stage Raw Award Nominations; her 2020 Chance Theater production of Fun Home won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Production of a Musical and the Orange County Theatre Guild Award for Best Production and Best Direction. Other favorite productions include Donald Margulies’ The Model Apartment for The Geffen Playhouse as well as Ivy & Bean at South Coast Repertory. She directed a Broadway-scale Aladdin for the Disney Cruise Lines and served as a Disney Show Director for seven years. Mazor began her career as founding Artistic Director of Voice & Vision, a theater developing the voices of women and girls, in New York City. She is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts TCG Fellowship and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.