Marina Gregory worked as a writer and director for SYDA Foundation, adapting the Indian epic, The Ramayana, which cast up to 150 young people from around the globe in a piece performed over a three month period in the Indian tradition of the Ram Lila. Marina studied directing under her father, Andre Gregory, working both as actress and director in Beckett’s Footfalls and Not I. Ms. Gregory went on to perform with the internationally acclaimed Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski for almost a decade, becoming a leading player in such works as Dies Irae, My Preposterous Interioris Show, the film of which premiered at Lincoln Center in NY. This opus was funded by the European Union, part of cultural outreach, touring in Europe, Africa, Turkey, and Russia. Ms. Gregory was a founding member of Workcenter’s Open Program, directing and acting in its first performance based on Beckett’s text, Fizzles, shown in Italy and Poland. Ms. Gregory assisted in creating The Zero Budget Festival, which took place in Wroclaw, Poland, bringing together artists from around the world to share work methods. The city of Wroclaw funded the project, all performances and dialogues open and free to the public. She was a leading player in I Am America, Not History’s Bones, Electric Party, and Electric Party Songs, all based on Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, touring globally, including SF MOMA, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and St John’s in NY. Returning to The States Marina directed Reflections of Nora, a play exploring Ibsen’s A Doll’s House incorporating full text, performed by a team of actresses from Italy, Chile, Canada, and America. She established Ravikiran, Inc. a Not For Profit to encourage long term residencies, fomenting multidisciplinary art projects. Hosting actors and musicians from Brazil and The US, she directed a three month exploration on the question: how can theater be food for the heart? resulting in the performance piece, The Celebration.
Ms. Gregory has been a participant in University of Southern California’s Visions and Voices and is also a recipient of Guild Hall Air Artist Residency for her play, Home. Her play, Little Light, received a staged reading at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater.
Marina Gregory has held theater trainings around the world, including Anatoly Vasiliev’s School of Dramatic Art in Moscow, Russia, Accademia dell’Arte in Turin, Italy, The Baryshnikov Arts Center in NY, New York University, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Stanford University in San Francisco. Marina holds certifications in Pilates, Gyrotonic, and The Egoscue Method. She has been a guest editor on the Grotowski issue of Theater Drama Review.
Presently Ms. Gregory has finished a novel.