About Marina

(Also known as Mazzy, Maz-Dog, and will answer to pretty much anything)

Marina Grace Lee is a musical theatre performer from the United States based in Melbourne, VIC. Marina began studying at the Victorian College of the Arts in Feb 2023, where she hopes to learn and grow over the next three years.

In March 2022, Marina worked professionally with Mudlark Theatre Company, developing the wonderful new work Girl Running Boy Falling adapted for the stage by Kate Gaul based on the novel by Kate Gordon.

Moving to Australia re-awakened Marina’s previous love of musical theatre, leading her to her current path where she is pursuing the arts in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently set to begin her third and final year of VCA before graduating into the industry.

Before moving to Tasmania, most of Marina’s time was spent training in classical ballet, approximately 40 hours per week, and taking classes in contemporary, jazz, Horton, flamenco, and Martha Graham technique with The School of Ballet Arizona. She began dance training at age 3 and has now performed in over 15 full-length ballets such as Sleeping Beauty, the Nutcracker (annually), Don Quixote, Symphony in III, Coppelia, and more. Marina has received scholarships to the English National Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre summer course (SC), Joffrey Ballet SC, Houston Ballet SC, and The School of Ballet Arizona. She attended rigorous schooling at Arizona School for the Arts, taking academic classes from 7:45 am-1:30 pm and bussing to SBAZ to continue ballet classes till 9:00 pm. From the age of thirteen, she began performing with the professional company Ballet Arizona and continued to dance in the corps de ballet until leaving the US in 2020.

Before Tassie, Marina grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, starting school at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH), where her love for the stage was ignited. She dabbled in musical theatre at OLPH, performing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cinderella: A Ragtime Musical, and Seussical.