Hi! I’m Marjie.
I bring stories to life,
from one industry and one medium to the next.
An actor by vocation, I caught the performing bug young, beginning formal ballet training at age five and joining every community theatre production I could in my rural hometown in northern Minnesota.
I moved east to study at Barnard College of Columbia University, earning a B.A. in Dance and Human Rights. There, I trained as an actor under Rob Bundy and Juilliard’s Rebecca Guy and worked with celebrated modern choreographers Twyla Tharp, Larry Keigwin, Colleen Thomas, and Sidra Bell. Over the years since, I’ve continued my acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, The Freeman Studio, The Bob Krakower Gang, and The Studio/New York.
Along the way, I’ve had the pleasure of performing on stages and sets across the country, including at Berkshire Theatre Group, Museum of the City of New York, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York Musical Festival, New York Live Arts, Sounds of the City, Columbia University School of the Arts, Theaterlab, Audible, and many others.
I’ve also learned that some of my best, most fulfilling work comes from simply making it happen myself. In 2018, I created and produced a solo cabaret honoring Judy Garland (we share a hometown!) called, What Would Judy Do? I performed four different iterations of it over two years, selling out venues in NYC and Minnesota.
In the fall of 2024, Jamie Gore Pawlik and I founded Kind Strangers Collective, a New York City–based theatre company committed to amplifying new voices and forging opportunities to perform bold and exciting work here in NYC. In May, we wrapped our second production, Rock Bottom, Bottoms Up, featuring 11 actors in new works by female playwrights, all wrestling with survival, recovery, and resilience.
Alongside every step of my performing arts career, I’ve worked in communications roles and written and edited professionally for various entities, including a human rights nonprofit, a boutique Manhattan law firm, Big Five publishing houses, a USA Today marketing partner, a CBD brand, an award-winning writer—you name it.
During the pandemic, I took the writing full time, joining the leadership team of a personal branding firm that helped business leaders share their insights and cultivate an audience around their work.
As VP of Content & Editorial, I built the firm’s writing department from the ground up and managed a roster of over 30 clients at the top of their fields—Harvard professors, Fortune 500 executives, bestselling authors—shaping their brands, launching their books, and writing and editing thousands of pieces of content.
I now freelance as a ghostwriter and editor with clients in a range of industries and subject matters—from executive coaching to mental health to product management—writing and editing books, memoirs, articles, and newsletters and creating content strategies focused on value delivery, engagement, and growth.
Whether diving into a play or writing for a new client, tying all of my work together is a deep curiosity about people, a commitment to understanding others’ perspectives, and the determination to have a positive impact.