ABOUT ME

The Short bio:

MARIA KOSOVICH (she/her/s) is a comic singing actor based in Minnesota. Currently, Maria serves as a board member of the Minnesota Valley Chorale. Most recently, she served as a teaching artist at Leap International High School with An Opera Theatre. Opera and musical credits include Cecilia March in Adamo’s Little Women, Hattie in Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and La marchande de journaux in Poulenc’s Les mamelles des Tiresias. Theatre credits include Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano as Mary and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus as the gender-bent titular character. Podcast credits include More than Words and The Tiny Writing Collective’s Festival of Short Radio Plays. When she is not singing, Maria is a playwright and activist.

The long biography:

MARIA KOSOVICH (she/her/s) has charmed audiences all over the Midwest through opera, theatre, and chorus work. Maria is a vocal artist in every sense: she is a classically trained singer, a proficient stage actor, an unapologetic physical comedienne, a voice-over artist, a writer, and an activist. She is a Zwischen Soprano-Mezzo with a strong middle voice, clear high notes, and an even low belt.

While completing her senior year at Simpson College, she performed as the gender-bent titular character of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and as Hattie in Kiss Me, Kate. She also debuted her first 10-minute play, Treatment, in the Blank Performing Arts Center as part of Alpha Psi Omega-Zeta Gamma Cast’s Women’s Piece in 2019. In 2018, Maria participated in the inaugural Des Moines Summer Choral Festival as a CORO Young Artist, under the batons of Dr. Phil Moody, Dr. Matthew Oltmann, and Dr. Tim McMillin, where she had the distinct privilege to personally perform for Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach as a soloist in their multi-movement chorale This is How You Love. In 2017, Maria displayed her comedic brilliance as Mary in The Bald Soprano. Before that, she participated in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music’s Opera Boot Camp, where she played La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and La marchande des journaux in Poulenc’s Les mamelles des Tiresias. Maria played her first named opera role as The Huntsman in Venus & Adonis in 2016. Maria is also no stranger to opera choruses: she has been a chorister in The Marriage of Figaro, Dido & Aeneas, and Hansel and Gretel. Maria made her opera debut in 2015 as a ballet-dancing, talking frog in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges. In 2014, Maria attended Camp Shakespeare at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.

While pursuing her degree, Maria worked seasonally at Little Falls Radio Corporation, where she got to hone her voice-over skills. She has acted in Katie Dean’s podcastMore than Words. She has also acted and written for Simpson College’s Tiny Writing Collective.

As for her activism, Maria served with AmeriCorps as an early elementary literacy tutor in the 2019-2020 school year as a part of the Reading Corps program. Maria was honored to be a Sexual Assault Response Advocate while at Simpson College, which is a Polk County/Iowa-certified victim advocacy role. Issues that are dear to her heart in no particular order are LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, body acceptance, racial inequity, neurodiversity in education, and voting rights, among others. This is a longwinded way to say that she is a busy intersectional feminist.

In her free time, Maria cross-stitches while listening to horror podcasts. She would like to remind the reader she is not a Speech Language Pathologist.