Actor

Marianna
Gailus

(she/her)

Recently performed the one-person play Vanya (adapted from Chekhov by Simon Stephens) off-Broadway as Andrew Scott’s understudy. Broadway: “Katya/Compromised Journalist” in Patriots. Regional: “Mrs. Hedda Tesman” in Hedda Gabler (Yale Repertory Theatre); “Lizzy Bennet” in Pride and Prejudice (Cleveland Play House). Other New York: cityscrape (Good Apples Collective, world premiere). Television: Law & Order. M.F.A., Juilliard Group 51 and recipient of the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Prize in Acting for outstanding achievement and exceptional professional promise. Juilliard credits include “Halina, The Middle” in Indecent, “Masha” in Three Sisters, “Parolles” in All’s Well That Ends Well, and “Ren” in The Extenders (film). B.A., History, Yale University. She also studied maritime and global history at Pembroke College, Cambridge where, exactly fifty-nine years and eleven months earlier, Sylvia met “that big, dark, hunky boy” at the launch party for St. Botolph’s Review.