Marlene McCurtis

Marlene McCurtis, Lead Teaching Artist & Documentarian, is a creative writer, filmmaker, TWP teaching artist, and the director of Moving Forward, a documentary short about TheatreWorkers Project’s collaboration with Dads Back! Academy. She has directed TV shows for The Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime, NatGEO, and PBS. Her short film Here I’ll Stay, about a coalition of civil rights and Latino activists fighting for immigrant rights in Mississippi, is featured on the acclaimed web platform “Field of Vision.” She is in post-production on Wednesdays In Mississippi about a little-known interracial alliance between women during the Civil Rights movement. She is an alum Fellow of the Firelight Media Producers’ Lab and a member of the DGA. Marlene has an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State.