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Marissa Chastain

  • Hair: Blonde/Brown

  • Eyes: Blue

  • Height: 5’7”

  • Weight: 140lbs

Skills:

  • Improviser

  • Yoga Instructor

  • Ballroom dance

  • Stage Combat, Fencing

  • Long boarding

  • Certified stand-up paddle board instructor.

  • Drive standard

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Experience

Film & Television:

  • “Coulda Done it in 5: Ferris Bueller”, Cameron, Sweeded Film Fest

  • Castor and Pollux Dog Food, Lead, Gravity Well Studio

  • Needful Things, Short, New Culture/Demetrius Barry

  • Yogma Season 2, Webseries, Open TV Chicago/Dem

  • Bank of America Commercial, Runner, Holli McGinley

  • Quicken Loans Commercial, Sport Fan, Concrete/Media House

  • Fingers of Fury , Ensemble, Funny Or Die/Alberto Mendoza

  • Safe Driving PSA-National Broadcasting, Lipstick Lady, Dan Oliver/Forward Motion

  • Red Robin Commercial, Lead, Charlie Driscoll/NorthWoods 

  • Redline To Howard, Olivia Vera, Web Series/Target:Cloud

  • Listen, Jess (Lead), IMDB, F.R. Rabeatth/Rabeatth Prod.

  • Para Suicide Pact, Gloria (Lead) IMDB, Sean K. Smith/Green Prod.

 

Stage: (selected work)

  • Monday Night Live (since 2015), Sketch Ensemble, Michael McCarthy/ iO Theater

  • Kenan Thompson: Showcase (2018) (2019), Stand Up, Carolines on Broadway

  • Arts & Culture Club, Crass Yoga: Standup, Courtney Crary

  • Huggable Riot 23rd Revue, Sketch Ensemble, Shelby Danosky & Amy Anderson

  • Zanies Chicago, Stand Up, Zanies 40th Anniversary Show

  • 3C, Linda/ Understudy, Shade Murray/ A Red Orchid 

  • Coached Ensemble, Ensemble, Bryce Read/ Second City Chi

  • No Refunds, Writing 6, Mark Belden/ Second City Chi

  • P.O.V (Weekly news show), Ensemble, Michael McCarthy/ IO Chicago

  • Stage Against the Machine, Writing 6, Jeremiah Howe/ Second City Chi

  • Sketch Cast, Sketch Writer/Actor, Tyler Samples/ Second City Chicago

  • Reservoir Dogs, Ms. Blonde, Cody Evans - Gan/ Bare Knuckle Pro

  • Did Jesus Laugh?, Lynn, Allyson Gonzalez/ Abby Hoffman 

  • The Boy Who Went Out To Find Fear, Ensemble, Nick Izzo/Rascal Children’s

  • Hot Georgia Sunday, Jenny Vickery, Anne Adams/ Black Box & ATC

  • Another Caesar, Rachael, Joe Lehman/ Inconceivable

  • Waco T. 1953, Dorothy Harting, Val Lieske/ Fire Exit Theatre

  • Bridezilla, Tia “The Bride”, Scott Roberts/ Mob Hit

Education & Training

  • iO Level 1, iO Theater Chicago, Pat Connelly.

  • iO Level 2, iO Theater Chicago, Susan Messing.

  • iO Level 3, iO Theater Chicago, Nnamdi Ngwe.

  • iO Level4, iO Theater Chicago, Farrell Walsh.

  • iO Level 4B, iO Theater Chicago, Craig Uhlir.

  • iO Level 5, iO Theater Chicago, Ryan Archibald.

  • Improv for Actors Full Program, Second City (Chicago), Micah Philbrook/ Ric Walker.

  • Black Box-Level 2 Meisner, Black Box Acting Studio, Laura Hooper & Audrey Francis.

  • Black Box-Level 3 Meisner, Black Box Acting Studio.

  • The Professional, Master Boot Camp.

  • Diploma in Theatre Arts, Playhouse North, Cindy Vanden Enden

  • Meisner Acting Technique, (Canada)