Child Acting with Marissa Joyce S.

CUNY

• Create and curate classroom curriculum to prepare undergraduate students to write at the college-level • Mentor students for academic and career success

The Anthropologists

• Administered marketing strategies and increased audience engagement • Created new fundraising campaigns and increased patronage • Launched company re-branding

The Joy-Jackson Initiative

• Increased JJI’s presence as an anti-racism resource in the professional and academic theatre sphere in its first year • Reached out to potential participants for research studies • Created press releases and served as the public media’s point of contact

Marissa Joyce S.

Marissa Joyce S. is a Haitian-American NYC-based writer, director, and actor who creates vortexes that center, celebrate and amplify Black folks through an Afrosurrealist lens. Recent plays include You Can Tell from the Twisted Juniper (2022 Eugene O'Neill NPC Finalist; Chautauqua Theatre Company‘s 2021 New Play Workshop; The Workshop Theater's Fall 2020 Writers Intensive), Blue Fire Burns the Hottest (Exponential Festival 2022; The Orchard Project’s 2021 Performance Lab), deadbodydeadbodydeadbody (Ars Nova ANT Fest 2022), Letiche and The Wondrous Pursuit of Elvis (Bushwick Starr Reading Series 2023), Being Up in Here and All the Other Businesses that Don't Concern You (The Brick Aux 2022), and Techno Paper Planes (Moxie Arts Moxie Commission 20/21). She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a frequent collaborator of The 24 Hour Plays. Marissa has also collaborated with The National Black Theatre, The Public Theater, The Fire This Time Festival, Conch Shell Productions, The Anthropologists, Dixon Place, Irondale, New Ohio Theatre, Keen Company, The Wild Project, Playwrights Downtown, BUFU, and more. Marissa is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild and Playwrights Center. Marissa serves as The Workshop Theater's Literary Manager. She also teaches English at and is a recent MFA Playwriting gradate from Brooklyn College with Haruna Lee and Dennis A. Allen II, where she was a Rona Jaffe Foundation 2021-2022 Fellow. She is also an NYU alum in BFA Drama and BA Journalism. marissajoycestamps.com

Queens County Educators for Tomorrow

• Assisted Family Worker in enrollment process for the school year • Conducted intake for incoming and current families • Directed parents to community resources • Managed front desk (greet, answer calls, file, etc.)

PFV Productions

• Managed production (lights, sound, scheduling, etc.) • Organized set changes • Assisted with lighting design

Actionplay

• Assistant stage managed the non-profit’s original musical, Surreality TV • Engaged young adults aged 13-21 with special needs in theatre-based exercises and activities • Assisted participants in further developing key skills, including social-emotional skills • Directly communicated with parents of participants

Orama Theatrical Enterprises

• Managed marketing and PR for Summer Rock: A New Musical • Managed all social media accounts and built the social media following for the musical • Assistant staged managed Summer Rock: A New Musical

New York University - Tisch

Brooklyn College

New York University - Steinhardt

New York University

Dramatists Guild of America

The Dramatists Guild of America was established over eighty years ago, and is the only professional association which advances the interests of playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists writing for the living stage. The Guild has over 6,000 members nationwide, from beginning writers to the most prominent authors represented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theaters.

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