Managing Director of Theatre Production

Associate Professor of Acting-Directing

B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts

M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University

SSDC, AEA, SAG, AFTRA

Respected international director, actress and singer Marjorie Hayes creates performances that engage and excite audiences in the U.S. and Europe. Ms. Hayes was awarded an Artslink Grant in 2005 to direct a site-specific production of Brecht/Weill’s socio-political musical Happy End for Teatr Wybrzeze, one of Poland’s professional state theatres.  It was staged at the Gdansk shipyard in the exact factory where the Solidarity movement started and employed out-of-work shipyard workers as chorus.  Later, her co-translation of Happy End was produced and ran for a year at the Polish National Theatre and subsequently received another production at the Theatre of the Baltic. Her production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost in Czech Republic was nominated for Best Theatre Production of 1999 in the major Czech theatre journal “Divadelni Noviny.”  In 1998, Ms. Hayes was awarded a United States Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where she had been a journeyman actor at Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Theatre Laboratory for several years. This time she directed Three Tall Women at Teatr Wspolczesny.

In 2009 she directed Wendy Kesselman’s award-winning thriller “My Sister In This House” for Dallas’ well-respected Wingspan Theatre. Two members of the Dallas Ft. Worth Theatre Critics Forum selected the production as one of the Best 10 Shows of 2009, and a third critic named Hayes as one of the top directors in the region.

As an actress, Hayes has worked Off-Broadway, in regional theatres, film and commercials.  Her films include the award-winning film Topeka, and a leading role in Uncertain, TX which premieres at the Austin Film Festival in 2011. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area she has especially enjoyed performing in Buried Child at Kitchen Dog Theater, the title role in Always, Patsy Cline and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! for Casa Manana at Bass Hall. In 2007, she performed her solo concert at the Non-Stop Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.  She was a lead soloist in two benefit concerts directed by Tony-award winner Betty Buckley: “Story Songs '09 and '11." Her highly acclaimed cabaret set "Taking Chances," has played in LA, DFW and New York City.

Ms. Hayes is the Managing Director of Theatre Production and an associate professor of acting and directing at the University of North Texas.  She received her BFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts and her MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.  She is a member of the performing artists unions: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, AEA, SAG, AFTRA.   www.marjoriehayes.com

Contact Information:

Office: RTFP 232
Phone: 940.565.2472
E-mail: Marjorie.Hayes@unt.edu