Norwich Actor & Writer
Professional actor and playwright based in Norwich, Norfolk
NEWS
Marie Cooper Secures Second Place in the Cooper Prize 2024
East of England Playwrights Selected for HighTide Writers Group
Marie Cooper to Return to Fairground Frights at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach
2024
- I’m superexcited to announce that I am a playwright in the inaugural HighTide Writers Group 2024. I will be writing a draft of a new stage play over the course of this year. I’ll be working with a wonderful group of talented people. I am overwhelmed with gratitude at being given the opportunity to be mentored by talented playwrights, Juliet Gilkes Romero and Tim Price.
- I’m on the Norwich Film Festival Screening Committee again this year.
- Waiting to hear back about auditions…
- Putting together a new writing community project, dependent on whether I can get funding to get it off the ground. Not quite sure where to start, but I am superkeen to make it happen.
2023
- I gave my first ever Lightning talk at Hot Source Sparks, about my excitement and love of Artificial Intelligence…
WRITING
Screenplays
Acoustic
Acoustic, a horror screenplay written by Marie Cooper, received an Honorary Mention by the Frights! Camera! Action! Screenplay and Film Contest on 31st Jan 2022
Stage Plays
I have been amazed and full of joy having received some wonderful recommendations for my playwriting on the New Play Exchange . The most recent of which was for my short Brechtian-inspired play The Elbow Grease Strategy. A timely look at the problems in society of cost of living, lack of quality/affordable housing and underpaid work.
If you’ve enjoyed my work on the stage or the page and want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside,
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ACTING
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Theatre
Check out my previous work over on my acting 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 on channels such as CNN and Discovery ID.
If you are looking for actors in Norwich or the Norfolk region, or thereabouts, get in touch.
Awards
Marie was awarded an Arts Council Funded Free Read with The Literary Consultancy, by the National Centre for Writing in Norwich
Marie was awarded ‘The Prize for 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, competing in semi-pro sup-air paintball tournaments, martial arts (Shotokan and Taekwondo) and corporate boxing, working in the Special Constabulary, 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 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 acting work. She has been incredibly fortunate to train with The John Wright Clowning School, Berlin’s TheatreFragile, and Teatro Strappato. She 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.
