Marianne Sawchuk

Marianne Sawchuk was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to her Ukrainian/English fighter pilot father and her Icelandic x-ray technician mother. Growing up as an air force brat mostly in the prairies of Western Canada, she has lived in 12 different places in Canada and the US, was the last daughter of 4 girls and is also an identical twin. She is an actress and producer for theater and film . She has studied acting at WDC in Vancouver, Canada, AADA in New York, and with Larry Moss, Cameron Thor and Ivana Chubbuck in LA. She created and produces "Women At Play(s)", an annual one act play festival for female playwrights, directors and actresses to promote theatrical work for women. She also produced the first annual festival of one acts, "Acts on the Edge", for Edgemar in Santa Monica out of over 900 submissions. Her first short film that she produced, "Heaven and Earth; A Ritual" was written, directed, and composed by her husband, Bruno Verdoni. He is also an actor and they have one daughter, Francesca. Marianne is a dual Canadian/American citizen.