Margaret Burrus

615.517.7969
margaretburrus.com
margaretburrus@me.com

Film & Television

MTV TRL Principle Viacom
Human Resources Guest Star dir. Sarah Smallwood Parsons (Above
Average)
Latino Field Studies Principle Univision- The Flama
Special Blonde Roast Series Regular Funny or Die (co-writer, producer)
Satan’s Old Apartment Guest Star Danger Friends/ dir. Miles Bonsignore
Bitch Talk with Brooke Guest Star BTRtv- Breakthru Radio
Waking Up Worried with Katherine Guest Star YouTube Series dir. Katherine Dudas

Improv/Sketch Comedy
BoogieManja: Candy Ass Pit Loft sketch team dir. Amanda Baramki
Funky Hard Beats Improv team UCB Cage match winners
Two Truths and a Lie; The Matter of Tyco Sketch podcast The Truth Podcast
CHIPs: Chapel Hill Improv Players Improv & sketch team dir. Jay Putnam

Theatre
Thespis Festival: The Bipartisan Sam dir. Nathaniel Claridad
Oppressed in Heels: Taming of the Shrew Tranio dir. Lynnsey Garegani
BMCC: Writers in Performance Cast Member dir. Mario Giacalone
Tales from Ovid Medon/ Chorus dir. Jeremy Skidmore
The Milford Project Penny dir. Scott Ripley
Sweet Charity Charity dir. Michael McWaters

Training
Upright Citizens Brigade NYC Improv 101-401 Karin Hammerberg, Aaron Jackson,
Molly Lloyd, Nicole Drespel
UCB Sketch Writing Sketch 101 Damian Chadwick
UCB Advanced Study Improv ​ASP The Movie J​ohn Timothy
ASP Musical Improv Eric Gerson
ASP The Monoscene Anthony Atamanuik
Advanced Study Harold Zack Willis, Chelsea Clarke
Advanced Study Improv Miriam Tolin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill John Patrick, Ray Dooley, Julie Fishell
B.A. in Dramatic Arts, Minor in Vocal Performance Dr. Melissa Martin
Awarded first place in ​Musical Theatre NATS
Competition NC Senior Division
Scott Miller Voice Method
Mel Mack Acting Studio (intensive)
A.C.T “Summer Training Congress”
Northwestern University Institute for Theater “Cherubs”

Special Skills
​Piano, Singing, Southern Dialect, Lacrosse, Water Skiing, Biking, Whistling, Swimming, Dance, Driver's Licence, Passport
basic Spanish, vocal diction in Italian, French, and German.