"Giovanna did not like being reminded of her peasant stock, of the inevitability in her circumstance."

Maria Porter is proud to be a part of Slippage Theater’s first season. Favorite credits include: Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard (Obie Award Winning Salt Theater), South, Feast, and Mrs. Worm with Target Margin, Or and Therefore with The Living Theater, and Rinne Groff’s Inky with Clubbed Thumb/Salt Theater, and Anne Bogart’s production of The Women.

Regionally she’s performed at Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Cornell Performing Arts Center, the Hangar Theater, Stage West, and the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. Maria was one of the first members of the Resident Professional Theater Company at Cornell Performing Arts Center. Favorite film credit: the Mother in Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool.

Internationally, she’s worked with Tadahsi Suzuki, Odin Teatret, and Teatro delle Radici. She has directed and taught many an inspired student as faculty member of the Theater Department at CW Post/ Long Island University.

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