Marissa Ontiveros is a Queer, Chicanx, Brooklyn-based Arts Administrator & Theater Maker

Marissa Ontiveros is the current Meridian Program Manager for the Center for Educational Innovation and former Program Manager of the Miranda Family Fellowship Program and a Chicanx, Brooklyn-based theater maker, teaching artist, and arts administrator committed to dismantling barriers of access and centering care, creativity, and community in all that she does.

She has proudly served as a teaching artist for multidisciplinary performance with humans of (almost) every age, size, and ability in partnership with Girl Be Heard, Brooklyn Acting Lab, Learning Extended Arts Programs (LEAP), Brooklyn Art Exchange, Lincoln Center, St. Nick’s Alliance, CO/LAB Theater Group which aims to give individuals with developmental disabilities a creative and social outlet through theater arts. She specializes in centering intersectional identity and celebrating creative choice through devised theater, movement, storytelling, and play.  

A powerful experience for her was being a PERFORMING ARTS LEGACY (PAL) fellow and part of creating an online platform to document and represent the careers of older performing arts professionals created by the Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC) at The Actors Fund (AF). As well as recently completing a 6 week trauma-informed teaching praxis through peer exchange and support, facilitated by Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and joining the Ars in Educations Teaching Artist  Advocacy Subcommittee in 2021. 

She received her BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, receiving her theatre training from Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.