About

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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News

“The ‘Academia de Artes Escénicas de España’ nominates Radojka as Best Hispanic Production in New York for the Talía Awards 2024″

Maria received a Latin Alternative Theater Extraordinary Award for her work in Seis

Maria was nominated for an HOLA Award 2023 for her work in Fuente Ovejuna

On Stage!

Performances for 2024 – New York

Radojka

Two women taking care of an elderly lady come together in order to survive and keep their job. They make a surprising decision that creates the most hilarious situations. What would you be willing to do to not lose your job?  Radojka is a coldly calculated comedy!

Performed in Spanish with English subtitles. 

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