Mara Elissa Palma is an actor, playwright, director, and producer, and looks to add more titles to tha tlist! She is originally from the Philippines, and now calls Boston home after graduating from Wellesley College. You may have seen her on-stage as Leah Anne Cho, et al. (Yellow Face, O.W.I.), Collaterial 1 (The Birds, Sleeping Weazel) Corrinna Stroller (House of Blue Leaves, Wellesley Repertory), and Camillo (The Winter's Tale, Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company). As a playwright, Mara was part of Company One Theatre's PlayLab Unit in 2016, and is forever grateful to her professor and mentor, Lois Roach, for introducing her both to C1 and playwriting. Mara has a mission to increase representation for women, and particularly women of color in all aspects of the theater and entertainment industry. Fierce, feminist, Filipina.
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