Marianna Bassham
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Theater (selections):
I Was Most Alive With You Astrid Playwrights Horizons (dir. Tyne Rafaeli)
Sweat Jessie Huntington Theatre Company (dir. Kimberly Senior)
Romeo and Juliet Lady Capulet Huntington Theatre Company
Yerma Maria Huntington Theatre Company
Our Town Mrs. Soames Huntington Theatre Company (dir. David Cromer)
Becoming Cuba Fancy Huntington Theatre Company
The Luck of the Irish Patty Ann Huntington Theater Company
I Was Most Alive With You Astrid Huntington Theatre Company (writer/dir. Craig Lucas)
Richard III Mistress Shore Great Lakes Theater Festival (dir. Bartlett Sher)
Othello Desdemona Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.
Twelfth Night Viola Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.
Blackbird Una SpeakEasy Stage Company
Hand to God Margery Speakeasy Stage Company
In the Next Room: Sabrina Daldry SpeakEasy Stage Company
(or the vibrator play)
Constellations Marianne Underground Railway Theatre
Hotel Nepenthe multiple roles Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Tempest (with Alvin Epstein) Ariel Actors' Shakespeare Project
Julius Caesar Mark Antony Actors' Shakespeare Project
Twelfth Night Viola Actors’ Shakespeare Project
God’s Ear Lenora Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Ford Actors’ Shakespeare Project
The Cherry Orchard Varya Actors’ Shakespeare Project
A Streetcar Named Desire Stella New Repertory Theatre
Quills (with Austin Pendleton) Madeleine New Repertory Theatre
Matt and Ben Ben Affleck Central Square Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche Gamm Theatre
Hedda Gabler Hedda Gamm Theatre
Uncle Vanya Yelena Gamm Theatre (dir. Curt Columbus)
Little Black Dress Amy Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
The Company We Keep Katherine Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (dir. Elena Araoz)
Miss Witherspoon Mothers Lyric Stage Company
Not Enough Air The Young Woman The Nora Theatre Company
Film/TV:
Moonrise Kingdom Becky dir. Wes Anderson
“Olive Kitteridge” Penny dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Don’t Look Up Director of Counterterrorism dir. Adam McKay
“Castle Rock” Prison Doctor dir. Michael Uppendahl
Rubberneck Marsha dir. Alex Karpovsky
“Louisa May Alcott:
“The Makeover” Jean Evans ABC/Hallmark Channel
The Woman Behind Little Women” May Alcott Nancy Porter Productions for PBS(with Elizabeth Marvel)
Commercial/Industrial:
Servicemaster, Comcast, Choice Hotels, prod. PicturePark
Cox Communications
CVS/ Tufts Health Plan dir. Patrick Sherman
Awards:
2009 Elliot Norton Award (Blackbird),
2011 Elliot Norton Award, Best Ensemble (The Hotel Nepenthe)
2010, 2016 IRNE Awards (Blackbird, Reckless, Little Black Dress; God’s Ear)
2019 Norton Award Best Ensemble, Small Mouth Sounds
2021 Norton Award Best Ensemble, Sweat
2022 Outstanding Actress, People, Places, and Things