Marianna Bassham has appeared with Great Lakes Theater Festival, Stoneham Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Central Square Theater, The Nora Theatre Company, Lyric Stage Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gloucester Stage Company, St. Michael's Playhouse, and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, and is a resident acting company member with Actors' Shakespeare Project. Her film and television credits include Booster, The Big Ship, Whaling City, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, and Moonrise Kingdom. She received an Elliot Norton Award for her work in Blackbird (SpeakEasy Stage Company), an IRNE Award for Blackbird and Reckless (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and Little Black Dress (Boston Playwrights' Theatre), and an ensemble Elliot Norton Award for The Hotel Nepenthe (Actors' Shakespeare Project). Ms. Bassham is a graduate of Brandeis University's MFA program.