As an accomplished film and television actress, writer, producer, director, standup comedian, and mixed media artist, Vanessa Marlowe has proven herself as a versatile dynamo in entertainment. This year, her prolific writing abilities were recognized by the Lombardy International Film Festival 2015 which nominated her mockumentary, Bowling For Concubines, for Best Unproduced Script.

Marlowe’s critically acclaimed 2012 satirical film short, Cinemacoma, displays her unique range of talents as she wrote, executive produced and starred in a comedy tour de force about a woman who can only speak to her husband in film quotes. (Cinecoma was recently picked up by JTS.TV for online distribution.) She brilliantly weaved unforgettable dialogue from over dozen iconic film classics. Witness Marlowe expertly channeling Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Vivien Leigh, Gloria Swanson and other screen giants from The Godfather, On The Waterfront, Taxi Driver, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Blvd, Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, and Singing In The Rain, and you will see why why there is no limit to her boundless talent, creativity and imagination.

Born in Southern California’s Ventura County and raised in California as well as Oswego, New York, Marlowe demonstrates a dynamic comedic flair reminiscent of a legend (Carol Burnett), and a contemporary star (Tina Fey), with her own distinctive style. In addition to Cinecoma, her credits include the films Jokes That Kill, Love and Movies, and Used Bookstore. Marlowe also performed double duty as an actress and production manager for the web series, My Parents Are Crazier Than Yours. After honing her craft in high school productions of traditional theatre works by Edward Albee and Henrik Ibsen, including Albee’s The Sandbox, Marlowe gained professional experience as a stage performer in Los Angeles and New York City. She appeared in numerous plays at Hollywood’s First Stage Theatre ongoing Playwrights’ Festival, including A Room in Coney, a heartwarming, Neil Simon inspired dramedy. She has also appeared in an international commercial for Cottonelle, as well as a Mother’s Day commercial directed by the award winning director Alfredo de Villa (Adrift in Manhattan, Washington Heights).

As a standup comedian, Marlowe has performed throughout New York, New Jersey and L.A., including the New York Comedy Club, Comic Strip Live, Stand Up New York, Boston Comedy Club, Underground Lounge, The Comedy Store, Village Lantern, Laugh Factory, Uncle Floyd’s, Rascals and Lucky Cheng’s.

Trained at HB Studios and Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York City, as well as the Conservatory in the Second City Training Center in Los Angeles, Marlowe graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in broadcasting. She developed a very successful partnership with her classmate Maria Soccor, forming their own film company, Arachnids with Pistolas Productions. Their joint productions include Cinemacoma and Play House. Marlowe will serve as a writer/director for their upcoming film, Prophet in E Minor, which she morphed from a theatrical piece to a movie script during stage readings she directed at the Playwrights’ Festivals at First Stage. It will star 30-year veteran Tony Amendola, whose credits include CSI, CSI: NY, Stargate SG-1, The Practice, Once Upon A Time, and Continuum. The comedy tells the story of Enoch, the first Biblical prophet in Genesis, who has been kept waiting in Purgatory for 3,500 years.

In 2014, Marlowe worked as a line producer for Soccor’s directorial debut in the award-winning documentary Lords of BSV about the breathtaking Brukup dancers in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City. The film’s honors include Best Documentary at the 2015 Visionfest Film Festival and Rahway International Film Festival 2015, and Best Director of a Feature Documentary at the Madrid International Film Festival. Lords of BSV has also received awards at the Long Island International Film Expo 2015 (Jury Award for Best Documentary), and Hudson Valley International Film Festival 2015 (Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature Film).

A captivating story teller and a master of creating and performing a wide variety of characters and dialects, Marlowe has a full repertoire of short films ready for production: Mischievous, Zaftig, Roommates, and No Shoes, No Shirt, No Class. She has also completed a one-act stage musical called No, I'm Not Pregnant, plus a full feature length comedic screenplay based on her adventures living in New York City. Marlowe is continually creating new projects, including a comedic horror feature, and a dramedy based on a book she wrote about her father inspired by college essays.