About Marie

Marie is a playwright, screenwriter, producer, and comedian, who graduated from NYU Tisch with a Writing & Producing Degree. She is matriculating to U.S.C 's Writing for Screen and Television M.F.A in 2024. Growing up homeschooled in St. Louis, Missouri Marie was forced to create her own opportunities and began writing and acting in comedic skits for her YouTube Channel, growing it to 300k+ views and 4,000+ subscribers. At 19, she self-published her 365-page non-fiction book ‘How I Became a Teen Actor’.

Her work has been called “bold”, “surrealist”, “bitingly funny with a satirical twist”.

After matriculating to NYU Tisch’s interdisciplinary arts major Collaborative Arts, Marie began taking screenwriting, playwriting, and producing classes in New York and London. After seeing the ability of white creatives in her program to create surrealist, absurd work, Marie began championing black comedic experimentation on stage, writing Award-Winning Short Film Fish Out of Water (Hear Us 2021) and selling out three nights of shows with her NYU Thesis Play How To Get a White Boyfriend.

Now, Marie writes socially engaged work about black femmes and sexuality, drawing on her own experiences with sexual assault and satire to confront the social construction of desire in a hetero-sexist society. She dreams of being a showrunner.

If interested in booking, please email marietagbo@gmail.com