Victoria Pero, MARINA, most recently played Friar Lawrence in Rogue Ensemble’s Romeo and Juliet. Directing credits include: off-Broadway & NYC: Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, starring Leslie Uggams for Amas and Signature Theatre. Adapted/directed MasterBuilder: REBUILT featuring Okwui Okpokwasili. Prodigal, a new Australian musical with Alison Fraser, Kerry Butler and Christian Borle at The York. The Strange Case of Mary Lincoln, with Barbara Walsh for Women’s Project. Pre-Broadway workshop of The Alchemist featuring James Stovall. David Rodwin’s Trippin’ at LaMaMa. Consumer Behavior for FringeNYC. David T. King’s Big Cactus. Caryl Churchill’s The After Dinner Joke for Monster(less) Actors, Inc. Regional: Scenes and Revelations: SUNY Purchase. Adapted/directed Ibsen’s A Doll House. Eric Coble’s Bright Ideas, Bob Clyman’s The Appointment, and The Guys, for Twelve Miles West. Ron McLarty’s Sandpilot at Luna Stage. Victoria worked at The Royal National Theatre in London, The Guthrie, The Cleveland Playhouse, The York, The Pearl, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Expanded Arts NYC and The American Stage Company. She has produced for The Spoleto Festival, The Drama League and Circle In The Square. Graduate of Northwestern University, Ohio University (MFA), and LAMDA. Educationally, Victoria has been a performing arts teacher at Bergen County Academies High School in NJ since 2004. Teacher of the year in 2011. She teaches Acting, Voice & Speech, Stage Combat, Stage Make-up, Theatre History, Stage Management, Fashion/Costume Design and has devised/directed over 20 award-winning productions. Victoria co-hosts the podcast, Coaching Shakespeare, with her former student, Amanda Whiteley.