Meet Marlene WALLACE
Marlene Wallace is a New York City based actor working in film, television and theatre.
She is from Bethlehem, PA and graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance from Temple University. Her first foray into acting was the result of a fortuitous event. She was asked to choreograph a piece that was later performed at the Kennedy Center. Subsequently she was hired to choreograph a major theatrical production in Philadelphia in which the director also cast her as the female lead. She received rave reviews describing her as “Raw Talent,” at which point she moved to New York and danced in several companies until a knee injury shifted her perspective and she decided to pursue acting.
Some highlights of her career include Discover Me, which won the Audience Award at the Chicago Film Festival. She also loved working with Todd Stephens of Edge of Seventeen fame on Gypsy 83, where she played Sara Rue’s mother. She enjoyed working on Enemies of Laughter with David Paymer, which was in the Boston Film Festival. She was a cast member of Sordid Lives and The Honeysuckles in New York, both weekly sketch comedies in which she originated many characters. She has performed in many venues including the Gotham Comedy Club, Caroline’s, the Pyramid Club, Westbeth, and Fez at the Time Café.
The roles she tends to play are unhinged grifters who were dealt a shitty hand and have a lot of demons, tough, loving heroes, and socialite wives with a biting humor and a vindictive underbelly of greed.
She often collaborates with other artists and has choreographed and directed for both theatre and film. She loves to pole dance and travel. Among her favorite experiences are living in Italy for a year and traveling throughout Europe and Asia including one of her favorite places, Vietnam. She and her husband also owned a boutique hotel in Marrakech, Morocco.