About

Marina Rebecca Chan is an actor (Actors’ Equity member), playwright (Dramatists Guild member) and producer based in Brooklyn, New York, with a soft spot for musicals and a passion for both traditional and innovative forms. Combining her various arts, she aims to spread joy, dispel stereotypes, advance representation and tell stories that speak to the avant garde nature of our times. She is also a proud Chinese adoptee! 

Marina grew up training in dance/choreography, music (piano, violin), voice and theater, acting in her school’s musicals and performing at various NYC venues. Her favorite childhood roles were Tin-Gal in The Wiz (Packer Collegiate Institute) and dancing in Mark Lamos’ production of Mozart’s Il Re Pastore in Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival! 

Marina graduated cum laude from Columbia University, with a Drama & Theatre Arts major and playwriting concentration. Her favorite college extracurrics include jazz singing with Christine Correa, Assistant Art Directing the 122nd Annual Varsity Show and programming classical music at WKCR. During college summers, Marina interned at Das Films (Santa Monica, LA) and the New York Musical Festival (working directly under Rachel Sussman). Following graduation, Marina conceived and produced Asian Americans in Theatre: Art and Activism, a series of panel discussions at Asia Society and Barnard, involving theatre professionals and scholars examining issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. 

During Covid, Marina acted in 15 Zoom productions, including her own plays Elizabeth’s Wonderland (self-produced, with 20 actors!), Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow (Little & Fierce Theatre Company), and Two Lovers (Rachel Love’s AirPlay). As the world opened up, Marina started performing in-person again and received formal Shakespeare training at the British American Drama Academy's Midsummer in Oxford program. Recent NYC credits include: Gary Morgenstein’s A Black and White Cookie (The Tank), A Tomato Can't Grow in the Bronx (Chain Theatre), and Dancing on Glass (staged reading at Dramatists Guild); developmental reading of Marina’s play Asian American Girl at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre; Ellen Robbins' Alumni Dance Concerts at New York Live Arts, including Marina’s choreographies, “Curtain Up!” and “Pastori”; MasterVoices concerts, including at Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall, as a new proud member of the chorus!  

Upcoming: Two Good Dogs Monologue Festival at Theatre Row, Sat, Sept 28th, including Marina’s monologue “47.” Gershwin's Strike Up the Band at Carnegie Hall, Tues, Oct 29th, with MasterVoices Chorus!  More deets and ticket links to come!