Hi! I'm Maille-Rose.

Wriggling with joy, bedazzled in a shimmery orange leotard, I dove into acting as a rainbow trout in Pearl: An Underwater Adventure (a rather confounding kindergarten opera, if my memory serves). As I waddled onstage with my fellow fish-friends, my 5-year-old heart fell hard for acting.

My passion grew as I began playing roles of the human variety. My pivotal "OH, so this is love" realization came in high school, playing Ma Kirby in Thornton Wilder’s “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden.” Initially, I absolutely despised her. And through the rehearsal process, I grew to embrace her, empathize with her, love her. She was simultaneously nothing like me and within me. I was hooked. 

Trained at U.Va. and subsequently at RADA and MN Studio, I'm continuously awestruck by the power of  this weird, wacky, wonderful art form known as acting, where we wear funny clothes and pretend to be other people. It's storytelling at its finest - inspiring empathy, collaboration, and human relatedness. I love being a part of it.