ABOUT
Marina Shron is a Russian-American award-winning writer/filmmaker/author, based in New York.
Marina enjoyed a successful career as a playwright before turning to filmmaking. She has received awards and funding for her work from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the James Thurber Foundation, and the Fund for Mutual Understanding, among others.
Marina’s first short film as writer-director, Lullaby for Ray, starring Estelle Bajou and Alfredo Narciso (Homeland, Demolition), won awards and screened in festivals around the world, including Toronto and Cannes. Sea Child (produced in Colombia and starring Argentinian child-star Federica Cafferata) premiered at the 2015 Fantasia Film Festival and went on to screen at numerous other festivals.
Throughout her career, Marina enjoyed close collaborations with many artists, including filmmaker Tony Pemberton, theater artists Ian Belton, David Greenspan, and Jim Findlay, and computer scientist Dennis Shasha. She co-wrote Tony Pemberton's feature film Buddha’s Little Finger (starring Toby Kebbell). She also co-authored the book of oral histories, Red Blues: Voices from The Last Wave of Russian Immigrants, with Dennis Shasha.
Marina received her MFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program. A former Fulbright scholar, she teaches screenwriting and film at the New School University and Rhode Island School of Design.
