María-José Zyga

MFA Professional Acting


Biography

BOVTS: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Masha in Three Sisters, Robyn in Meet Me at Dawn

Pre-BOVTS: Kit in Survival Box (Feature Film), Rae-Yuna in Dr. Rees Ziti’s Pageant… (ARS NOVA/ANT Fest), D in Polaroid Stories (NYU Tisch), Ariel in The Tempest and Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (both at RADA).

Training outside BOVTS: BFA in Drama (NYU Tisch School of the Arts), RADA Short Course, Springboard NYC (American Theatre Wing)

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate