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Alternative (more fitting) headlines for this website:

  • Marie Osterman: Creator, Facilitator, Invigorator

  • Marie Osterman: actor, director, shaker of bones

  • Marie Osterman: actor, director, projector (they're loud!) 

  • Marie Osterman: currently seeking representation, and her car keys 

  • Marie Osterman: Seriously, Has Anyone Seen My Keys? I Could've Sworn I Had Them 5 Minutes Ago? 

  • Arby's: We Have The Meats

Bio: 
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Marie Osterman is a queer, LA-based theatre & movement artist with a passion for Shakespeare, intersectional feminism, modern dance, birds, and phrases that rhyme. Marie recently graduated from UCLA's School of Theatre, Film & Television where she studied acting and directing. They're currently the associate managing director (and #1 fan) of Project Nongenue, an LA-based feminist theatre collective that works to center the voices of marginalized women and queer identities through classical text, and a teaching artist for Unusual Suspects and 24th STreeT Theatre. Marie is also a facilitator, teacher and passionate member of the Contact Improvisation community, having studied with community leaders in Los Angeles, Germany, and Tbilisi. Their own teaching in Contact Improv focuses on accessibility, community-building, emergent strategy, and chaos. They hope to continue to create, collaborate, and perform in work that engages in active conversation with the social atmosphere around them. 

Artist Statement: 

​Marie Osterman is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance, movement, improvisation, writing, and directing theatre. Their work centers around generosity, queer embodiment, and politics of the body. Marie’s generative art combines her classically-trained background in theatremaking elements with her experience teaching and studying contact improvisation with the mission of facilitating intimate and playful creative spaces. They believe in a theatre that empowers and emboldens participants and audiences alike-- a generous theatrical space that has room to hold what needs to be held, and ignite conversation and community. 

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