Check out our conversation with actress Cindy Marinangel as we learn about her one woman show Dietrich and more about her journey to become an actress.

Cindy Marinangel is an international actress, a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio (having studied under Mark Rydell, the late Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn and Alec Baldwin) as well as a Chicago Second City Conservatory graduate (Stephen Colbert, Nia Vardalos, etc.).

She was in UPtv’s holiday special BEVERLY HILLS CHRISTMAS with Dean Cain and has had leading roles on stage since kindergarten when she played her first queen.

Cindy continued the boards in Chicago, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Berlin, Los Angeles and New York in straight plays, dance shows as well as musicals. She has originated over twelve roles in new plays to rave reviews, most recently playing Misti in NY’s New Circle Theatre’s workshop production of FRACTURED.

During Covid, Cindy purchased the rights to DIETRICH, the acclaimed, 75-minute, solo show - with - music that she produces and stars in. She has sung as Marlene Dietrich in Times Square for International Peace Day and performs an hour-long cabaret show as the international icon, having performed nine shows over three days at the Mid Atlantic Air Show's World War II weekend in their Officer's Club.

Cindy is also a voice over artist. Her uniquely deep voice was personally chosen by Beyonce’s family to narrate her international half - hour special for E! Entertainment. Cindy voiced two characters in the number one video game BRUTAL LEGENDS with Jack Black, Ozzie Osbourne and other rock legends.

Cindy is the owner of Angel Baker Productions and with her international, creative team wrote, produced, and starred in an award-winning short film about a soul connection through lifetimes called ETERNAL WALTZ.

The film was sponsored in part by the Johann Strauss Foundation of Germany and has garnered thirteen awards to date. Among those, she and her cast won “Best Acting Ensemble- Short” in the Culver City Film Festival, “Best Director” in the Amsterdam Around International Festival, “Best Female Film- Mini Movie”, as well as “Best Cinematography- Mini Movie” in the iHollywood Film Festival. ETERNAL WALTZ was screened in the Action On Festival in Las Vegas.

Cindy is a competitive ballroom dancer with a passion for Latin dancing. She graduated Cum Laude from Purdue University and is an avid cat rescuer who maintains an animal-free diet.

Mitch Levine (Director) is a film and stage director and actor, led the Directors Unit of the legendary Actors Studio, was a Juilliard Fellow and the first James Cameron Directing Fellow at the AFI. His film, SHADOWS, a story of love and loss during the Holocaust, Mitch directed GOD HELP US! starring the late, great Ed Asner, the documentaries HUNGRY IS THE TIGER and MORPHING GRAVITY and the drama INCONFIDENCE (Cannes 2015).

He directed the epic Bicentennial Celebration of the University of Virginia, was Artistic Supervisor of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, collaborated with Peter Gabriel and Moses Pendleton on PASSION, directed A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM for PRT, Jean Anouilh’s ANTIGONE for the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Arthur Kopit’s WINGS. In New York, he directed SORRY! at Circle Rep, AMORPHOUS GEORGE for MCC and the revival of Lyle Kessler’sORPHANS.

Mitch was the host of AFI’s GREAT FILMMAKERS series and of REFUGEE VOICES IN FILM in Cannes. He runs The Film Festival Group, consults with filmmakers around the world and served as a Special Representative to the United Nations.

The late Willard Manus was a playwright, journalist and novelist who was a member of the Playwright/Director unit of The Actors Studio. His most recent plays were JOE AND MARILYN: A LOVE STORY, FRANK, AND AVA (now a motion picture) and WHO KILLED COMRADE RABBIT? His best-known novel was Mott the Hopple from which the 1970’s British rock band took its name.

CINDY MARINANGEL is DIETRICH for three nights at A Guest Production in The Other Space at Santa Monica Playhouse April 2, 9, 16 TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE @ EVENT BRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dietrich...

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