Marta Rainer

About Marta Rainer

Director, Wellesley College TheatreArtistic Director, Wellesley Repertory \"Unaccustomed To My Name\":“Gifted.very exciting.I recommend her highly”Wendy Wasserstein“Terrific.so intricate, so intense, so intimate.” Garrison KeillorHeadline:\"Solo show: singular achievement\"The Boston Globe“Strictly terrific, darlin’!”Paul Sills, founding director, Second City\"Unmissable.”The Guardian Faultless. Powerful. Amazing.Everyone should see this one woman show.”edfringe.com“The audience fell out of their chairs with laughter!”Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw, Poland)“Commands absolute attention”The Scotsman“Impresses the audience not only with her obvious erudition, but also with her humor, versatility and heart”Theatermania.com \"You are in an open field\"Approval Matrix (brilliant and lowbrow quadrant):\"Re-creates the sensation of getting drunk in front of late night Adult Swim cartoons\"– New York Magazine\"Participating with relish are three ingratiating actors…compatriots in geekery. Breathless tempo. …Pixelated charm\"- NY Times“\'Joyous Video-game Shtick\' done with antic wit\"- NY PostEditor Pick: Flavorpill, L Magazine\"What would happen if the coolest nerds you know were to make a rap musical about the daily grind? Thoroughly entertaining.sharply intelligent…A whimsically animated journey…filled with witty allusions to everything from video games to theatre history to science. …The infectious charm of the performers is a joy. The kind of theatre that inspires me to think about the future of this art form.\" – \'Rabbit\' is First Rate: You know quality when you see it.Marta Rainer stands out as the utterly natural Izzy, unafraid to be unpleasing.\"-Richmond Times-Dispatch, regarding Firehouse Theatre Project\'s production of David Lindsay-Abaire\'s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play \"Rabbit Hole\"Specialties:\"In a performance that is nothing short of brilliant, Marta Rainer skips along the scrambled circuits of this woman\'s psyche with wit, charm and a personal honesty that even in her most terrifying and hostile moments, never loses the audience\'s empathy. The gifted actress also possesses an easy flowing, precise mime-like dexterity, that fills the empty stage with an imaginary world of people, places and things.\"- The Suburbanite, regarding production of Christopher Durang\'s \"Laughing Wild\"

Experience

1. Associate Professor of the Practice

   Wellesley College

   Jan 2026 — Present

   Recipient: Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2022, Wellesley CollegeRecipient: National Citizen Artist Award, American College Theatre Festival, 2021

Education

• New Actors Workshop/Antioch University

  M.A., Acting, Performance, Playwriting, Sociology

  1999 — 2001

• Wellesley College

  Russian & Theatre Studies

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Fundraising
• Festivals
• Stage
• Creative Writing
• Improvisation
• Film
• Producing
• Teaching
• Dance
• Acting
• Directing
• Musical Theatre
• Photography
• Drama
• Press Releases
• Radio
• Shakespeare
• Storytelling
• Music
• Theatre
• Performing Arts