Maria Deasy

Playwright

As an actress, I have appeared Off-Broadway and in several films and television shows.  New York credits include The Crucible at The Roundabout Theatre Company and The Importance of Marrying Wells at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Among my film appearances are Aimy In A Cage starring Crispin Glover, Barry Levinson's Sleepers, and starring roles in the award-winning short films Contact Zone and The Anniversary.  Television: 30 Rock; All My Children; Momsters; Onion News Network.  A graduate of Brown University, I am the author of a new play about the coal industry, Mine, which made its debut at The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival this past summer.  I am also the Special Projects Associate in the Executive Office of the ACLU and on the Board of Directors of Irish American Writers And Artists. While my parents harken from beautiful County Mayo, Ireland -- I am both a native New Yorker and a Jersey Girl.