Marielle Buxbaum

Marielle Buxbaum is a Phi Beta Kappa and Honors graduate of Brown University, where she studied Theater Arts & Performance Studies and Literary Arts. Marielle delivered a commencement speech at her Brown graduation to a crowd of 10,000. She has also been a Fulbright researcher in Ecuador, where she has worked to create playwriting workshops in a local high school and various other places.

Marielle is the recipient of Brown's George Houston Bass Award in Playwriting, the Brown Theater's S. R. Steinfeld Prize, Brown's "Chai" Research Fellowship (which she used to conduct ethnographic research in Jerusalem in developing her thesis play about hummus!), and a Lois Roth Foundation grant in support of her work in Ecuador. Marielle is also a co-founder of Brown's only TV production company, Brown Original Series. Her theater work as a writer, actor, and director has been staged from Rites and Reasons Theater in Providence to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the International Festival of Live Arts in Loja, Ecuador.

Marielle also has in-depth experience teaching Shakespeare at The American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, where she developed skills for teaching literary analysis with theatrical flair. Marielle brings her passion for storytelling, linguistic detail, and literature to her teaching with DIYI, and is excited to work with your students to encourage and develop their creative and intellectual potential.