News
Norwich based actor and playwright, Marie Cooper, has her audio play, ‘Unlocked’, which she recently wrote during lockdown, included in an International Walking Play collection with playwrights from the US, UK and Canada.
Walking Plays available for performance now
During lockdown in three countries, twelve states, playwrights walked. Inspired by their wanderings, they wove stories and came together to share. Tales of social justice. Of magic and the tragic. The comical and the historical. Horror and fantasy. Where their minds wandered, their characters followed. Across time, across generations. Diverse and dispersed, they brought their plays together and walked the world. Well, some of it.
All of the plays were written for outside – so they can be performed over Zoom, as a podcast or radio play. If your theatre, podcast or radio station would like to perform any of our plays, visit the Walking Plays Facebook page.
‘Unlocked’, inspired by my lockdown walks, by the riverside and Norwich Cathedral Quarter is part of the collection, and is also now up on the New Play Exchange.
“…you start to feel breathless from the movement. It’s a fast-paced, action-packed audio play that tears your emotions a zillion ways before letting them go.” Lee R. Lawing
Acting
Covid still prevents me from being on a stage right now. It’s over a year now since my last film too. But I’m incredibly grateful and fortunate, in having an artistic portfolio career that includes Roleplay. It’s workable via Zoom and provides me with some income whilst theatre, film, TV and creative industries recover and reimagine a new future in this post-covid landscape.
I’m also keeping in touch with fellow artists and theatre via Zoom, taking part in online play readings, to be ready to bounce back onto the stage when theatres are permitted to reopen for performances.
Things have been tough for artists since Covid-19
severely impacted the creative community.
If you want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside and help support
creativity you can buy me a coffee…
Looking for a Norwich Actor? Let’s Work Together.
Theatre
Check out my previous work over on my portfolio. page. I have worked on a range of productions for theatre including Shakespeare, Noel Coward and portraying Margaret Thatcher in Moira Buffini’s ‘Handbagged’, to being one of Santa’s Elves for Santa’s visit at Christmas, a Halloween rat and Promenade Street theatre narrator/lead.
Medical Roleplay
I work regularly as a simulated patient / medical role-player to assist students in their communications training.
Film and Television
I occasionally work with filmmaking students at the Norwich University of the Arts, acting in short student films and have also recorded a voiceover for a documentary-style film.
I also work as a background artist. If you have a sharp eye, you might spot me in a TV series or few, in American documentary series.
If you are looking for actors in Norwich or the Norfolk region, or thereabouts, get in touch.
Equally, if you’re looking for a supporting artist in Norfolk, (Yes, I do that too. A girl’s gotta eat, you know), then message me…
Awards 2019
Marie was awarded an Arts Council Funded Free Read with The Literary Consultancy, by the National Centre for Writing in Norwich
Marie was awarded for her ‘Outstanding Performance by a Creative Entrepreneurship MA Student‘ by the Interdisciplinary Institute of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia
Diverse Background
I have been incredibly fortunate to have had diverse experience in work and play, providing me with a range of skills, from working as a Paintball Marshall and playing semi-pro sup-air paintball tournaments, competing in martial arts (Shotokan and Taekwondo), working in the Special Constabulary, taking part in corporate boxing, climbing and mountain biking.
I am available for:
- Theatre
- Film (Student, Short, LB, documentary, feature)
- Commercials
- Street performance
- Film extras / Background Artists / Supporting Artist
- Simulated Patient / Medical Roleplay
- Roleplay in Health, Education and Corporate settings
- Voiceover
- Computer Games
- Rehearsed Reading/Scratch
- Artist’s Modelling
- Murder Mystery
- Seasonal Performances
- Anything Star Wars or Game of Thrones related (joking… Not joking)
Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Marie Cooper performs around the East Anglian area of the UK and beyond. She started her acting career in open-air theatre in the beautiful parks and green spaces of Norfolk.
She completed the Norwich Theatre Royal acting course and rapidly and voraciously grew her varied portfolio of work. She has been incredibly fortunate to train with The John Wright Clowning School, Berlin’s TheatreFragile, Teatro Strappato and had voice and movement training with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Marie completed her Master’s degree in Creative Entrepreneurship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 2018.