Marya Mazor

Artist Profile

Marya Mazor’s professional career as a director has taken her from theater to immersive experiences, to film and digital tv series. Mazor recently directed the World Premiere of The World is Not Silent for The Alley Theatre and New York Stage & Film Company (Best Production/Play, Houston Press Awards). Her productions have received multiple LA Times Critic’s Pick designations, Ovation Award Nominations, and Stage Raw Award Nominations; her 2020 Chance Theater production of Fun Home won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Production of a Musical and the Orange County Theatre Guild Award for Best Production and Best Direction. Other favorite productions include Donald Margulies’ The Model Apartment for The Geffen Playhouse as well as Ivy & Bean at South Coast Repertory. She directed a Broadway-scale Aladdin for the Disney Cruise Lines and served as a Disney Show Director for seven years. Mazor began her career as founding Artistic Director of Voice & Vision, a theater developing the voices of women and girls, in New York City. She is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts TCG Fellowship and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Productions at Chance Theater

Production Date Role
Gloria September 2024 Director
Cheese, The Musical: OTR Reading April 2023 Director
Fun Home January 2020 Director
Tigers Be Still May 2019 Director
Tribes September 2017 Director
Scientific Method: OTR Reading March 2016 Director
The Dragon Play July 2015 Director
On The Radar: Important Hats of the Twentieth Century October 2014 Director
Time Stands Still September 2013 Director
Overlooked September 2012 Director
Nerve January 2011 Director
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? September 2010 Director