MariaLuisa is a graduate of the UBC BFA acting program. After graduating she attended the British American Drama Academy’s BADA “Summer in Oxford” acting intensive. She then moved to Paris, France where she spent a year studying with Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier. MariaLuisa's favourite theatre credits include Hattie in Laundry and Bourbon with Here for Now Theatre (Stratford, Ontario), Emily Bronte in We Are Three Sisters with United Players, Wallace Dunlop in Vital Spark's first production and remount of Rebel Women, and Eurydice in Welcome to Thebes with United Players. She co-wrote a short play, A Lovely Day for a Picnic with her creative partner Jordon Navratil. Most recently MariaLuisa directed a stage reading of The Sky on the Skin, a Mexican play, translated by UBC Ph.D. candidate Santiago Farías Calderón.