Actor/Writer/Producer Marie Smalley, SAG-AFTRA, lives in New York City. A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Mastery Level training at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting (London/NY), she works in films and television. As a writer, her feature screenplay "Searching for Shadow" was the Winner of a Golden Pen Script Award in 2025, and an Official Selection at the Festival of Cinema NYC in 2023. Her pilot script, "The Proxy Mom," was a semi-finalist in the 2025 New York Script Awards. Marie founded Adagio Productions LLC, to develop her own female-driven content, much of it inspired by true events. She strongly believes inclusion is the way forward in the industry. She produced a feature “Emma’s Footprints,” and “Visions: Four NY Artists” (writer, producer, asst. director) for PBS. She produced/curated film/video artists for Open Mouse in NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, London and Ars Electronica in Europe. She was a member of NASA’s Art Advisory Committee. Published works include “Comrades," in 2021, an essay for a NY Times subsidiary, and from her years in the NYC art world on the curatorial staff of The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and The Takashimaya Art Gallery, she authored exhibition catalogs "Elemental Images,” “Quiet Light,” “Volume and Void,” and a reference book, “Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art.