About Maria

Native New Yorker. Jersey Girl…

Maria Deasy is is a New York-based actress, singer, writer, and producer, who has over three decades of experience as a New York-based actress, singer, writer, and producer. She has performed onstage at The Roundabout, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and Theatre For The New City, among many other theatres. Her film and TV appearances include include Aimy In A Cage starring Crispin Glover, Barry Levinson's Sleepers, the award-winning films Contact Zone and The Anniversary, and 30 Rock, along with several other network television shows and soap operas.

In 2022, she appeared in FLX’s Eat A Swede, which won the Cannes Lions Festival Entertainment Grand Prix. Most recently, she was part of the “loop group,” recording background audio for the Colin Farrell/Margot Robbie film, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.

In 2019, Maria won the Bairbre Dowling Spirit of the Festival Award at Origin Theatre's 1st Irish Festival for her work as a Producer of Derek Murphy's Inside Danny's Box. She also received a Best Actress nomination for that production. At the 2018 Origin 1st Irish Festival, Maria produced and starred in Dyin' For It, also by Derek Murphy, for which she received Best Production and Best Actress nominations. In New York, she has performed at The Roundabout, the Lucille Lortel, and Theatre For The New City, among many others. 

A graduate in “Literature & Society” from Brown University, she attended the Midsummer in Oxford program through Yale Drama School, and later studied at Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante and with acclaimed acting teacher Wynn Handman. She completed the Commercial Theatre Institute's 14-week program, “Advanced Topics in Producing For The Theatre” in 2015.

She is the author of Mine, which she produced at The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in 2017.

During the pandemic, she wrote and performed with Italian screenwriter Deborah Belford de Furia in Together Apart, a collection of 10 mini-musicals conceived by Grammy winner Lisa Loeb, with whom Maria also wrote the song “Suspended.”  The project raised over $40,000 for The Actors Fund (now known as the Entertainment Comunity Fund) through the Broadway On Demand platform.

Maria was President of Irish American Writers & Artists from 2020-2024, having previously served as Vice President for two years and on its Board for over ten years. She In 2021, she was honored with the Irish Echo’s Arts & Culture Award for her effort and spirit in arts-led recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has presented at the Irish Echo’s Big Irish Campfire and Irish Labor Awards, and has hosted both on-line and live St. Patrick’s Day and St. Brigid’s Day celebrations at the New York Irish Center. She represented Irish American Writers & Artists as a delegate to the 2023 Global Irish Civic Forum at Dublin Castle in Ireland, and was an Honorary Chair of the Irish Arts and Culture Awards in Buffalo, New York.

While her parents harken from beautiful County Mayo, Ireland — Maria is both a native New Yorker and a Jersey Girl.

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