MARY JANE
HANSEN
ACTOR
ph: 518.669.7536 / email: mjhansen33@yahoo.com
ACTOR BIOGRAPHY
Mary has performed at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, New York State Theatre Institute, Queens Theatre in the Park, Teater Vastmanland, Sweden and Teatro Campogalliani, Italy among other venues. Favorite roles include Susy in Wait Until Dark, Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, Irene in Idiot’s Delight and Joan in The Lark. She has appeared in numerous episodes of ABC’s All My Children and has been featured in television commercials as well as corporate industrials. Mary is a partner in Handsome Spyder Productions, a film production company. She wrote the script and co-starred in the feature, The Thing on the Doorstep. She also played the female lead role of Nell Dancer in the original stage production and for the Audie Award-winning Family Classic Audiobook of The Killings Tale. The audiobook Hollowville: A Ghost Story, for which Mary played the female lead and served as scriptwriter, earned two Audie Award nominations. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG/AFTRA, New York Women in Film & Television, and The Dramatists Guild of America.
MARY JANE HANSEN
AEA,
SAG/AFTRA
PRODUCTION ROLE THEATRE DIRECTOR
The Man in the Brown Suit
(Also adaptation)
Pontypool
Night of the Living Dead
(Also adaptation)
The Stranger
Letters From A Window In The Sky
(Also Playwright)
Other People's Money
Someone
The Vagina Monologues
Guardians of the Treasure
(Also adaptation)
Dark North
The Sound of Murder
Pinocchio
(Also adaptation)
Saratoga Chips
(Also Playwright)
American Soup
(Also Playwright)
A Tribute to Richard Wilbur
Born Yesterday
The Lark
Macbeth
A Tale of Cinderella
A Murder is Announced
Arsenic and Old Lace
Philadelphia Story
Wizard of Oz
Wait Until Dark
Fiorello
Harvey
The Tempest
Idiot’s Delight
1776
Romeo and Juliet
And Then There Were None
A Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(Also Playwright)
Ordeal By Innocence
(Also Adaptor)
The Crazy Time
And 20+ more professional productions
Minks, et al.
Sydney
Briar
Helen
Cooper
Enid
Bradshaw
Mary Jane
Kate Sullivan
Janice
Women
Narrator
Genevieve
Anne Norbury
Blue Fairy
Carlotta Myers,
Mrs. Morrisey
Maggie
Hermione, Eliante, Irma
Billie Dawn
Joan
His Wife
Seppia
Julia
Elaine Harper
Tracy Lord
Glinda
Susy
Dora
Myrtle Mae
Miranda
Irene
Martha Jefferson
Lady Capulet
Vera Claythorne
Clara
Mary
Susan
Saratoga
Arts
Saratoga
Arts
National
Museum of Dance
National
Museum of Dance
National
Museum of Dance
National
Museum of Dance
National Museum of Dance
National Museum of Dance
National Museum of Dance
National Museum of Dance
National Museum of Dance
Saratoga Arts
Center
Teater
Vastmanland, Sweden
Teatro Campogalliani, Italy
Queens Theatre in the Park (QTIP)
NYS Theatre Institute (NYSTI)
Old Colonial Theatre
NYSTI
White Plains Performing Arts Center
QTIP
Teater Vastmanland, Sweden
NYSTI
NYSTI
Lincoln Center, NYC
Danny Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Shea’s Theatre, Buffalo
Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady
Syracuse Civic Center
QTIP, NYSTI
QTIP, NYSTI
QTIP, NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
NYSTI
Lake George Dinner Theatre
Patricia
Snyder
Will
Severin
Will
Severin
Patricia
Snyder
Tereza Andersson
Bill Fortune
Pat Birch
Misc
Mary Jane Hansen
Will Severin
Ron Holgate
Mary Jane Hansen
Bill Fortune/Patricia Snyder
Bill Fortune
Ralph Hammann
Ed. Lange
Patricia Snyder
Liz Swain
Patricia Snyder
Patricia Snyder
Ed. Lange
Bill Fortune
Patricia Snyder
Ralph Allen
Pat Birch
Ralph Allen
Greg Banks
Ed. Lange
Ron Holgate
Ron Holgate
David Bunce
Patricia Snyder
Liz Swain
Bruce Jordan
FILM, TV & AUDIOBOOKS
The Outage
The Thing On The Doorstep
Looks
That Kill
A
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Hollowville
The Killings Tale
All My Children
Various Commercials & Industrials
Actor & Screenwriter
Actor
Actor /
Author / Director
Actor & Author
Female Lead Actor
Nurse: 10+ episodes
Handsome Spyder Productions
Released 2016
Handsome Spyder Productions
Released 2014
American High
Released
2020
iTheatre Saratoga
Radio Drama / WAMC-NPR
Family
Classic Audio Books
nominated for 2 Audie Awards
Family Classic Audio Books
2004 Audie Award Winner
ABC
EDUCATION
Masters, Harvard
University, Extension School, Dramatic Arts
Scott Zigler - Directing/Scene Study
Marcus Stern - Advanced Acting
Remo Airaldi - Acting Shakespeare
BA Theatre, Russell College, Troy, NY
Marymount Manhattan College, NY
ETC.
Featured as Original Cast in 3 Samuel French Publications (Killings Tale, Miracle on 34th St., Tale of Cinderella)
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