WORK EXPERIENCE
MARIA
WOLF
And I'm Your Host
​Three, two, one, Action! Reading from a teleprompter was super fun as I played the host of the library segment for Lower Merion Township's TV channel in Pennsylvania. The library always had a special place in my heart--and still does--because there's nothing like a good book to keep you company when you're between scenes in a shoot or when you're at home, just relaxing.
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Directors' Commentary​
And the buzz continues for The Trouble with Tessa. See what the directors, Dennis Cahlo and Bethany Watson from New York's Hudson Valley, have to say about my work as Betsy Crane in the six-episode thriller, now streaming free on Tubi and Screambox. Playing the villain was never so much fun!​
​​Coming to Movie Theaters
I just wrapped on my first feature film! I had the supporting role of a devoted mother whose daughter has to face some difficult realizations about her life and her past.
DNA requirements prevent me from reporting more, but principal photography is finished, and the film is now in post.​​​
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Film Fest Circuit News
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On Stage
We celebrated International Women's Day with a 10-minute short at Plays and Players, a theater in Philadelphia that opened in 1913. We performed an original work by playwright Jana Woods (center) that explored great female poets--Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson--and their poetry. This short is the foundation for a full-length play Jana is now working on. Pictured (left) is Donna Bencivengo.
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Bad Egg Brag​
The short, Bad Egg, in which I played an unapologetic mother-in-law from Long Island, is still garnering awards on the film fest circuit. It was a fun shoot, and great short written by Bryan Mittelstadt and Laura Cantwell, a super writing team.​
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Reviews
Praise for Maria Wolf’s work
in The Balcony
The play’s dominant figure is still the brothel madam, Irma (Maria Wolf) who directs all the performances in her house of mirrors, fantasies, role-playing and illusions and does so superbly.
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-Alan Miller
Aseatontheaisle.org
Maria Wolf in OFFICE PoLITICS
Maria Wolf as the boss (Karen) captures the intelligence and the heart of a woman succeeding in a man's world. I did not watch actors acting at Office Politics. I watched people living.
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-Heather Chamberlain
StageBuddy.com
Praise for Maria Wolf’s work
in The Balcony
The principle actors serve well, led by a bravura Maria Wolf in the complex role of Madame Irma. She’s a businesswoman, and if she strikes a pose it’s because she’s in the business of posing.
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-Steve Capra
Newyorkcritic.org
Maria Wolf in THE TROUBLE WITH TESSA
To the actress who plays Betsy, you did a phenomenal job. You made me hate your character so much. Thank you for that!
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-WASD and Beyond Podcast
Praise for Maria Wolf’s work
in The Balcony
Maria Wolf is an appropriately arch Irma.
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-PJ Grisar
Nytheatre.com
Maria Wolf in THE TRoUBLE WITH TESSA
Kudos to the actress [Maria Wolf]. She has this...smile, and she immediately flips the switch and gets very evil."
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-Reign of Horror Podcast
Maria Wolf in The Exonerated
“Maria Wolf is powerful as Sunny Jacobs, who was accused, along with her boyfriend, for murdering two policemen. He was executed. Her children had to go to foster care, yet she isn’t overwhelmed with bitterness.”
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“Thanks to six incredible performances and six real lives, “The Exonerated” is still an extraordinarily powerful play.”
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“The lead actors do not over-do their performances, even though their stories have their share of melodrama. The performances are all the more powerful because of that.”
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-Jane Holahan
Lancaster Newspapers Inc.