Missy Maramara
Melissa Vera "Missy" Maramara is a Filipino actor, theater director, Intimacy director and coordinator, improviser, and educator. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drama (Performance) from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) through the International Fulbright Scholarship Program. She is also trained in mask work and silent play from the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Moment Work from Tectonic Theater Project in New York City, and Intimacy Work from Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) and Theatrical Intimacy Coordination (TIE) in New York City. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts and English Department of the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Arts, a Master of Arts in English Literature and Cultural Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English Language and Literature. Her most recent acting credits include Marie Curie in Lauren Gunderson’s The Half Life of Marie Curie, Sister Lucia in Floy Quintos' Grace, Uncle Jane in Nelsito Gomez's Uncle Jane, and Maro Liwanag in Joshua Lim So's A Color for Tomorrow. She received the LEAF Award for Most Outstanding Actress for Callie in Diana Son's Stop Kiss (2019), the Aliw Award for Best Featured Actress for Mitch in Floy Quintos' The Kundiman Party (2018). She is a proud member of SPIT Manila, Southeast Asia’s premier Improvisational theater company, and a teacher in Third World Improv. She is currently the president of the Philippine Theater Actors Guild (TAG Ph).
Un/Happy for You
as uncreditedTwo years after their breakup, a Bicolano chef on the rise reunites with his ex- girlfriend who...
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as HazelAfter a heartless firing triggers a chain of unfortunate events, Philo plots a meticulous...
Movie pageShoveling
as InterviewerOut of financial desperation, a young florist gives up her passion and joins a gang to make ends...
Movie pageBitukang Manok
as EdenWhile driving along the Quezon Province's famed Old Maharlika Highway, which has been referred...
Movie pagehundreds of year(ning)s
as uncreditedIn a 24-hour salon, two vampire women with history look back on their centuries-old memories,...
Movie pagePepot Superstar
as MommyA story about a ten-year-old boy whose dream is to become a movie star. Pepot, the dreamer, is...
Movie pageBe Mine Again
as Dolly MaritresThe film explores the tension between human freedom, what people decide to do with their lives,...
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