Mary Poindexter
WRITER & TEACHING ARTIST
Commercial Reel:
Acting
Deer One, by Mary Poindexter. Staged reading, Buffalo History Museum,
Buffalo, NY, 2017
Returns, by Mary Poindexter. Staged reading, Kavinoky Theatre, Buffalo,
NY, 2017
Vesperum, by Beccah Hartman. Staged reading, Marie Maday Theatre at
Canisius College, 2016
The Marriage of Mom & Dad, by Mary Poindexter. Staged reading, University at
Buffalo, 2015
Apple of My Eye, by Tracy Snyder. Staged reading, RLTP, 2014
Sure Thing, by David Ives. University at Buffalo, 2013
Some Girls, by Neil LaBute. University at Buffalo, 2013
The Tempest, by Shakespeare. Aurora Waldorf School, 2016
“Dick Powers,” online videos and live performances by Peter
McLaughlin. 2013 - present
Directing
THEATRE
Our Finest Work Samuel French Off Off Broadway
Short Play Festival, NYC
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unrehearsed Shakespeare Co. of NYC
Man in the Basement Alice's Fourth Floor Theatre, NYC
The Elevator Play Alice's, NYC
Mathematical Certainties Columbia Dramatists, NYC
Islands 340 W. 55 Performance Space, NYC
Houseplay Alice's, NYC
Over the River &
Through the Woods Belmont Italian American Playhouse, NYC
Nighty Night Smokeless Girl Alice's, NYC
Possible Worlds Alice's, NYC
Food Alice's, NYC
Action Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The Mousetrap Huntington Playhouse, Cleveland, OH
Founding Member of “Mission Improv-able,” an Improv Group at Stanford University
COMMERCIAL
National: Crest, Boston Market, Aleve,
Tonka, IKEA, Time Magazine, others
Regional: local commercials, industrials,
training videos, voice-overs
TELEVISION
Featured role, Why I Murdered My Roommate (pilot), 2015
TRAINING/INTERNSHIPS
MA in Theatre & Performance Studies, University at Buffalo
William Esper Studio: 2-Year Meisner Program with Barbara Marchant
Ensemble Studio Theatre: Curt Dempster, Leslie Avayzian, Lewis Black,
Cassandra Medley
Actors in Advertising: Commercial Course with Joan See
Text Analysis: Martin Esslin
Improvisation: Keith Johnstone, Patricia Ryan Madson, Christine Farrell
Movement: Loyd Williamson
Voice: Bill Reed, Allan Lokos
Internships: Playwright/Actor in Residence, Ensemble Studio Theatre
Summer Conference
Literary Associate, Alice’s Fourth Floor Theatre, NYC. 1991-1996