Marilyn Mithra Stone

Marilyn Mithra Stone BIO (www.newyorkisdead.net)

Marilyn Mithra Stone is a transplant from the UK and the Executive Director of the Aztec Economy - an emerging, Brooklyn-based new media/performance art/tech group. She has worked as a director, assistant director, and managing director for various underground and breakthrough performances in London including Grafting and Budding with Sheila Ghelani at BAC, The Three Billy Goats Gruff(Garlic Theater), The Hot Zone (Conspirator's Kitchen) and Fight Face (with Sophie Woolley) at Lyric Hammersmith. She was an associate for programming for Barbican's BITE'07 theater selections and assistant directed Fecund at the Chelsea Theater. As a director she has several shows that have premiered at Camden People's Theater including Urashima Taro, Late Night's Shifting Sand, Trace [Fish] 46, and most recently, Literature Do at Camden Fringe. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as an ensemble actress, she switched roads and studied directing at LAMDA. She did a year long internship for management at the Royal Court Theater and has made a career both in theater administration and music, recently recording her first album, MithraTHOPE, to be released in summer 2010 in the UK. She is excited to be in NYC now with her fiancé and with the Aztec Economy.