| Marisa Calin | |
| Birth Name: | Marisa Calin |
| Birth Date: | 5 January 1983 |
| Birth Place: | California, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | American Academy of Dramatic Arts |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Yearsactive: | 2017–present |
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. 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]
Calin wrote and produced the independent drama film A Million Happy Nows with her company Perfect Features.[23] The film played primarily the LGBT festival circuit for the 2017 season, screening at more than 50 festivals[24] including the Mardi Gras Film Festival,[25] Frameline Film Festival,[26] the Palm Beach International Film Festival and Outfest.[27] The film won Outfest's Audience Award for Best First U.S. Narrative Feature.[28] It also won Curve Magazine's poll to screen at the first ClexaCon film festival in Las Vegas in 2017,[29] and came away with the award for Best Feature.[30] Research for the film led to Calin's advocacy for the Women's Brain Project[31] and she was their guest at the International Forum on Women's Brain and Mental Health in Zurich, Switzerland in 2019.[32]