Marisa Calin | |
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 Calin at the Outfest premiere of A Million Happy Nows , 2017 | |
| Born | Marisa Calin 5 January 1983 California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | American Academy of Dramatic Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Website | marisacalin.com |
Marisa Calin (born 5 January 1983) is an American-born English actress, writer and producer.
A native of Bath, Somerset, [1] Calin began her actor’s training at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and at 18 attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. [2] [3]
Calin's debut book, the young adult novel Between You & Me, was published in 2012 by Bloomsbury. [4] It earned positive reviews in Kirkus [5] and Publishers' Weekly. [4] Between You and Me was named a Kirkus Best Book of 2012 [6] and was selected for the American Library Associations’ 2013 Rainbow Book List of quality books with authentic LGBT content. [7]
As an audiobook narrator, Calin has earned an Audie Award nomination for full cast recording of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytales, [8] and an Audie win for Sadie [9] by Courtney Summers. [10] Calin has earned AudioFile magazine's Earphones Awards [11] for a variety of titles, including books by Garth Nix, [12] Jennifer Robson, [13] and Mary Calvi's Dear George, Dear Mary, [14] for which she was featured on CBS in a behind-the-scenes look at the making of audiobooks. [15] Her performance in Sophie McKenzie’s Close My Eyes [16] received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review [17] and made their 2013 Listen-Up Awards for Audiobooks of the year. [18] She led an effects-full production of Teeth in the Mist [19] by Dawn Kurtagich for Hachette Audio which was named by Paste Magazine as one of the 19 Best Audiobooks of 2019 So Far. [20] Three titles she narrated in 2019 were selected for Yalsa's round up of Amazing Audiobooks. [21] [22] 2024 included a Society of Voice Arts and Sciences award nomination for Outstanding Audiobook Narration - Fiction - Best Voiceover. [23]
Calin wrote and produced the independent drama film A Million Happy Nows with her company Perfect Features. [24] The film played primarily the LGBT festival circuit for the 2017 season, screening at more than 50 festivals [25] including the Mardi Gras Film Festival, [26] Frameline Film Festival, [27] the Palm Beach International Film Festival and Outfest. [28] The film won Outfest's Audience Award for Best First U.S. Narrative Feature. [29] It also won Curve Magazine's poll to screen at the first ClexaCon film festival in Las Vegas in 2017, [30] and came away with the award for Best Feature. [31]
Research for the film led to Calin's advocacy for the Women's Brain Project [32] and she was their guest at the International Forum on Women's Brain and Mental Health in Zurich, Switzerland in 2019. [33]
