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Marina Shron
Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication and Media
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Marina Shron is a New York-based writer and filmmaker. A graduate of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, she enjoyed a successful career as a playwright before turning to filmmaking. She is a recipient of awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Austin Film Festival.
Marina’s plays have been produced at Sohore Rep, New Georges, and Lincoln Center Summer Lab in New York, and published nationally and internationally. The feature screenplay “Buddha’s Little Finger she co-authored with the director Tony Pemberton was produced by Rohfilm, Germany, and Telefilm, Canada in 2016.
Marina's first short film as writer-director, LULLABY FOR RAY, won the Best Short Film Award at the Toronto Independent Film Festival and screened in festivals worldwide. Her second film, SEA CHILD, premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival and was an official selection at film festivals worldwide. Critics hailed it as a “haunting portrait of grief and desire in the tradition of Terrence Malick.” Both films are distributed by London-based distribution company TV Shorts International and streamed on Fandor and Roku.
Her current feature project as a writer-director “The Fruit of Our Womb” was honored with The Rising Star in Screenwriting Award at the Canada International Film Festival among other awards. It was selected for the IFP Narrative Screenplay Program and London Film Festival PFM. The screenplay will be published in the upcoming edition of Best Unproduced Screenplays by (Screen)Play Press.
A former Fulbright scholar, Marina teaches screenwriting at The New School University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Montclair State University.
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