Mara Jill Herman

Mara Jill Herman is an actor, writer, educator, and producer based in Astoria. She is the coauthor of So You Wanna Be A Superstar? The Ultimate Audition Guide (Running Press Kids) and contributor to Musical Theater Today, Vol. 3 (Yonkers International Press). Digital publications include Backstage, OnStage Blog, Theatre Nerds, and BroadwayWorld Japan. Benefit concerts conceived, directed, and produced include Ruth Sent Us, Changemakers, and Stronger Than Hate. As a soloist, she appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 54 Below, and with the Orchestra Japan tour of Disney On Classic (Mother Gothel). Favorite acting credits include Rent (Maureen), Baby (Lizzie), All Shook Up (Miss Sandra), On The Town (Hildy), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Maria), and Guys and Dolls (Adelaide). Mara is featured on the 2022 concept album How To Repair A Mechanical Heart (Kathy). National/International tours include Jesus Christ Superstar and Bob Mackie’s Broadway. She received NYFA’s City Artist Corps Grant and YoungArts’ Creative Grant for generating original work. Mara was featured on CBS Mornings with the Queens Theatre Senior Ensemble for Storytelling and Devised Theatre work. She is a Teaching Artist for City Center and New York Theatre Workshop. 

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