ABOUT ME

Maria’s journey to theatre led her through fields of multimedia design, photography, social work and medical school; and it began to manifest at the age of 22 when she worked as Hospital Clown in Buenos Aires. This early spark led her deeper into clown technique and thus deeper into theatre itself.
Subsequently, she entered the EMAD: Metropolitan School of Dramatic Arts (Buenos Aires) specializing herself in “Acting for Open Spaces”. Here she was training outdoors for two years in the beautiful Parque Avellaneda (Buenos Aires), came rain, came shine.
In that time, she met the very well-known mask maker, Alfredo Iriarte. Inspired by him she began her research into the different masks in general but also into techniques of mask making and the pedagogies by Marcelo Savignone and Lecoq.
Realizing that the so-called Balinese masks were named after the Island Bali, where people created these masks, Maria caught fire and knew she had to go. For nearly two years she lived in Bali, carving masks in wood and eventually forming part of a collaboration with her teacher, mentor and friend, I Made Sudirga. This project is called „My Bali Mask“. Entering into the Balinese beliefs and conceptions of the world, it was at this time that Maria underwent a process of healing and reshaping herself as person and artist.
When she returned to Argentina, she created workshops which brought together Balinese masks and conceptions with occidental theatre: allowing the creation of her own and personal research of theatre with masks.
Her journey continued and led her to a school formerly known as LISPA (London International School of Performing Arts, now arthaus.berlin) in Berlin. In summer 2019 she completed the two-year postgraduate training at arthaus.berlin in performing arts, devising theatre, and embodied dramaturgy, following this with a pedagogical year with the school director Thomas Prattki in 2020 and with additional credits in 2022 to gain the MA Devised Theatre and Performance.
Since 2020 Maria teaches on the DTAP and ADP programs at arthaus.berlin.