Maria Cominis

Listen to HB Insights Podcast Episode #7, June 7th, 2023, New York City.

Maria Cominis is a first-generation Greek American who creates in LA, OC and NYC. Based in Los Angeles, she recently served as a juror in the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, The Egyptian Theatre. GLADYS Magazine named her as one of the 100 Success Stories (GLADYS MAGAZINE 100 SUCCESS STORIES. She spent a decade in New York City as a working actor and teaching artist at the renowned, HB Studio. She is an accomplished actor in both theatre and television and also a published author and playwright. As playwright, out of 600 applicants, she placed as a semi-finalist in the 2023 Dramatists Guild Fellowships. Her play, Women of Zalongo is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Grants for Arts Projects Award (’22) for a development production in 2023 in Orange County and a semi-finalist in both the Eugene O’Neil National Playwrights Conference (’22) and Bay Area Playwright’s festival (’20). THE CLIFF, is the screenplay adaptation of the play currently in development. Television Credits: Hacks, New Girl, Desperate Housewives, All My Children, One Life to Live. Theatre: Bernarda Alba, The Diviners, The Sea Gull, Ivanov. She’s published with Routledge, Kendall Hunt and Smith & Krauss Publishing and a Professor at California State University Fullerton where she teaches acting and the area coordinator of the BFA Acting Program. 

Her passion is in being a generous collaborator on any project. She is a mother, a professor and a force of feminist pride with passionate, Greek proportions.

Actor represention: MINC Talent and Literary Manager is G.Layne, Progyny Talent. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, National Alliance of Acting Teachers, MICHA and Honor Roll.