FUN FACTS
MAREN IS HAUNTED BY HER PAST
Maren’s family has many photos of her as a child that seem to come back and haunt her in her professional adult life
MAREN WAS A CHILD ACTOR
If you want to know what I looked like at seven you can see me on the cover of Tony Kushner’s Slavs! While they were able to photoshop all the boogers out of my nose, they left the bangs that I cut myself.
MAREN COMES FROM A LONG LINE OF TROUBLE MAKERS
Here’s a picture of Mama J (Maren’s mother) stirring up trouble with Dr. Martin Luther King
Professional Bio
Maren is a theatremaker based in Chicago. While in Chicago, Maren has worked as a company member with Halcyon Theatre, a physical theatre divisor with Chicago DanzTheatre Ensemble, a teaching artist with Beverly Art Center, and a new play workshopper with The Mammals. She is the owner and creator of Escape Artistry and was the former executive producer of Room Escape Adventures, the first room escape company in Chicago. She sat on the board of the Wicker Park Bucktown chamber of commerce, is a community organizer and an active alumni of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program,
Before graduating high school, she ran the 'Sierra Leone Goods Drive' where she organized her fellow students in fundraising, collecting, sorting, and shipping a ton (2000 lbs) of clothing, books, medical supplies and non-perishable items to send to Bolma Koya in Sierra Leone.
Maren received a BFA (with honors) in Acting and Theater Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has also studied with Second City in Chicago, and at BADA in London.
After graduating, Maren found work in Europe, preforming in Germany, England, Italy, and around the Mediterranean, working primarily in the Middle East - mostly in Palestine.
Maren has appeared on Palestinian television and has been seen on stage across the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Maren worked for Sharia SimSim (Palestinian Sesame Street), and co-produced productions of Fugard's 'The Island' (with American Fulbright Scholar, Joe Martin) while working as the International Artistic Associate at Inad Theatre.
Maren returned to the United States and moved to Chicago in December of 2011. She is represented by Ambassador Talent.
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Escape Artistry voted “Best Escape Room in Chicago” 2018
Awards Received
Outstanding Community Service Award from SANAD 2012 & 2020
Escape Artistry Voted Best Escape Room in Chicago 2018
Lab School of Washington Alumni of the Year 2019
Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Market Ethics 2019
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