Maria Fontanals is an award-winning Spanish actress based in New York, educator, and currently faculty member at HB Studio, one of the original New York acting studios, she is also part of its Artistic Council. She is also a member of the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain. She has an extensive experience on stage performing leading roles with renowned Off Broadway theaters. She is best known for portraing women who are strong, bold and powerful. Although she tends to play dramatic lead roles, she is also known as comical actress with a witty sense of humor that led her to play comical roles like Dorothy Parker’s sarcastic, wry, clever and sharp humor characters.

For her to be an actor is a great privilege, an honor to be a vessel for stories, to be allowed to inhabit so many lives. She is interested in truths, in playing someone so that audience could say: “Yes! I feel that way too, I’m not alone.”

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