Maria Cominis

Maria Cominis, a first-generation Greek American, lives, works and creates in Los Angeles and Orange County, California. She spent a decade in New York City as a working actor and teaching artist at the renowned, HB Studio, New York City. She’s an accomplished actor in both theatre and television, a published author, playwright, and acting teacher.

Her most recent play, Women of Zalongo, a semi-finalist in both the Eugene O’Neil National Playwright’s Conference for 2022, and the Bay Area Playwright’s festival in 2020 received the National Endowment of the Arts Grants for Arts Projects for California State University Fullerton for 2022. The play received multiple academic and cultural grants for the development (Workshop, August 2021).

As an actor. Television credits include New Girl, Desperate Housewives, All My Children, One Life to Live. Theatre: Bernarda Alba, The Diviners, The Sea Gull, Ivanov. She is a Professor at CSUF and has directed many productions and teaches acting in the BFA Acting Program. Her first book, Rehearsing in the Zone, a practical guide to rehearsing without a director, Kendall Hunt, 3rd ed. 2020, guides acting students through an independent rehearsal process and recently, she Co-authored Production Collaboration in the Theatre: Guiding Principles for Routledge Publishing, ‘22.

Maria is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actor’s Equity and certified through National Alliance of Acting Teachers, Michael Chekhov Association ‘09 and Fitzmaurice Voicework (’04). She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drama from University of California Irvine and a BA in Theatre and Music from CSULB. She is part of the last generation of actors who studied under Uta Hagen and continues her legacy through teaching her technique. She is represented by MINC Talent Agency.