Maria Deasy

Profile

Maria Deasy is an actress, singer, writer, and producer. She has performed onstage at The Roundabout, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and Theatre For The New City, among many other theatres. Her film and television appearances include Sleepers, 30 Rock, Guiding Light; and Late Nite With Conan O’Brien.

She won the Bairbre Dowling Spirit of the Festival Award at Origin Theatre’s 2019 1st Irish Festival for her work as a Producer of Derek Murphy’s Inside Danny’s Box. She also received a Best Actress nomination for that production. At the 2018 Origin 1st Irish Festival, Maria produced and starred in Dyin’ For It, also by Derek Murphy, for which she received Best Production and Best Actress nominations.

Maria was President of Irish American Writers & Artists from 2020-2024, having previously served as Vice President for two years and as a Board Member for over 10 years. In 2021, she was honored with the Irish Echo’s Arts & Culture Award for her effort and spirit in arts-led recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has presented at the Irish Echo’s Big Irish Campfire and Irish Labor Awards, and has hosted both on-line and live St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at the New York Irish Center. She represented Irish American Writers & Artists as a delegate to the 2023 Global Irish Civic Forum at Dublin Castle in Ireland, and was an Honorary Chair of the Irish Arts and Culture Awards in Buffalo, New York.

A graduate in “Literature & Society” from Brown University, she attended the Midsummer in Oxford program through Yale Drama School, and later studied at Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante and with acclaimed acting teacher Wynn Handman. She completed the Commercial Theatre Institute’s 14-week program, “Advanced Topics in Producing For The Theatre” in 2015. She is the author of Mine, which she produced at The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in 2017.

www.mariadeasy.com
Instagram: @bonomaroo

Credits

• A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - Voice Actor
  Columbia Pictures; 30WEST; Imperative Entertainment; Chapel Place Productions; Original Films
• Eat A Swede - Bettina
  FLX
• Momsters, When Moms Go Bad -
  Sharp Entertainment - Gwen Sherbondy

Contact

mariaefdeasy@gmail.com

+1 646-319-0134