Artist Diversity talk with Marlaina Powell
February 22, 2021 @ 7:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Professional artists talk about the challenges they faced as a person of color in the arts. Our first guest speaks specifically about how she navigated being a young black woman on Broadway. Sponsored by Hopkintons local cultural council.
Our first guest in our new Artist Talk series is Marlaina Powell
Marlaina is a proud product of Howard University, The City College of New York and New York University’s Prestigious Steinhardt School where she received her Master of Music in May of 2016. She is a member of both Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Marlaina’s favorite stage credits include Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway), Smokey Joe’s Café (Broadway ), The Civil War (National Tour), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (National Tour) NUNSENSE!, Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, and A, My Name Is Alice.
Most recently, Marlaina was featured in Disenchanted! as the princess who kissed the frog at The Women’s Theater of New Jersey’s Parsippany Playhouse. Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic Marlaina was starring in the Off-Broadway musical Sistas, at the St. Luke’s Theater in NYC. She is a teaching artist at Luna Stage Theater in West Orange, NJ and was recently hired as an adjunct professor at William Patterson University in Wayne, NJ. She is the proud wife of Stephen Powell, and even prouder mother to their daughters Sinclair Adina and Simone Alexandra.