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Marisa LaRuffa 

ACTOR - SINGER - DANCER
 DEVISOR- TEACHER - INTIMACY DIRECTOR
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Marisa LaRuffa is an NYC-based Italian-Filipina-Spanish-German actor, singer, dancer and devisor. 

Marisa (she/her) was born a multicultural fish-out-of-water in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. Having graduated cum laude from NYU Tisch's New Studio on Broadway (BFA in Drama: Musical Theatre), she now works as a professional performer and artist. Post university, Marisa has learned from the wonderful educators and artists at Theatrical Intimacy Education (founded by Chelsea Pace). She uses their consent-based, trauma-informed modalities as an intimacy professional and throughout all of her creative practices. She is the current Artist Advocate with Emit Theatre, and is also a teacher and director at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, NY.

Marisa employs her empathic nature as her greatest strength. As a mixed ethnicity, pansexual, and complex woman, she continues to advocate for not only the necessary uplift, but the celebration of LGTBQIA+ and BIPOC/Global Majority stories/storytellers. She is a proud member of Ring of Keys and is AEA Eligible.

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NEWS/UPCOMING WORK

MARISA NOMINATED FOR BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMER AS OPHELIA IN HAMLET

 

HAMLET/THE TEMPEST NOMINATED FOR 14 BROADWAY WORLD AWARDS

Marisa was nominated for Best Supporting Performer for her "fleshed out" and "connected" performance as Ophelia in Shakespeare in the Woods 2023 Summer Production of Hamlet. Both shows were nominated for best production and ensemble as well!

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