About
Maria Fontanals is an award-winning Spanish actress based in New York, as well as a faculty member at HB Studio, one of the original New York acting studios. She is also a member of the Academy of Performing Arts in Spain as well as Actor’s Equity Association. Maria has extensive experience on stage performing leading roles with renowned Off Broadway theaters. She is best known for portraying women who are strong, bold and powerful. Although she tends to play dramatic lead roles, she is a versatile actor who has excelled as comedic actress. Her witty sense of humor has led her to play roles like Dorothy Parker’s sarcastic, wry, and clever characters.
For her, acting is a great privilege. Being able to be a vessel for stories and inhabit so many lives is what inspires her. She is interested in truths and playing characters that audience could say: “Yes! I feel that way too, I’m not alone.”
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Press
News
“La monja alférez goes on tour in Spain: Clásicos en Alcalá and Festival de Olmedo. July 2024“
“The ‘Academia de Artes Escénicas de España’ nominates Radojka as Best Hispanic Production in NY by the Talía Awards 2024″
“Maria was nominated for an HOLA Award 2023 for her work in Fuente Ovejuna“
On Stage!
July 3rd &4th in Clásicos en Alcalá
July 22nd – Festival de Olmedo, Spain
La monja alférez
La monja alférez: A story of a 17th Century woMAN who fights against all odds to validate his gender identity. La monja alférez is the story of Guzmán, a woman, who flees a convent in Spain dressed as a man, travels to The Americas, and becomes a renown soldier throughout Latin and South America. In Perú, Guzman falls in love with Doña Ana, then leaves her because they cannot consummate the relationship.
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles.
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