51ÂÜÀò

Marcieanna Klaustermeyer began working professionally on Broadway and Hollywood over 20 years ago. An internship with the legendary screenwriter, director, and producer Garry Marshall (Princess Diaries, Pretty Woman, Beaches) led to her first job as an Associate to the late Benjamin Mordecai and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson (Fences, The Piano Lesson). Her early Playbill production credits include King Hedley (Broadway), Jitney and If It Was [sic] Easy (Off-Broadway). She earned an M.F.A. in Producing for TV/Film at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts to foster her passion for the stage and screen. A few years later Klaustermeyer would have producing credit on the feature film Fling, starring Brandon Routh and with Apples and Oranges Productions for the Tony Award-Winning New Musical, Memphis, having also produced the marketing videos and Memphis, The Musical: Behind The Scenes documentary. She was an assistant in TV Lit Long Form at the former International Creative Management (ICM), and a talent agent in VO and Commercial at Special Artists Agency before landing in feature film development. She earned a credit on Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, the science fiction horror prequel to, and the third installment of the Cabin Fever franchise before her dream opportunity with the Best Picture Academy Award-nominated producers, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter (Dune: Part One, Dune: Part Two, Noah), earning her screen credit on such films as Godzilla and the animated feature film, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water.

Throughout her entertainment career, Klaustermeyer taught as an Adjunct Professor in both theatre and television/film programs at Nyack College in New York, Vanguard University, and rose to an Assistant Professor and Chair of Media and Visual Arts at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, and then to an Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at 51ÂÜÀò. As a playwright and screenwriter, Klaustermeyer wrote and workshopped an original Zoom play with La Jolla Playhouse and her short screenplay, Imperfect Neighbor is currently in post-production. She was a semifinalist in the Digital Series competition at the Austin Film Festival, semifinalist in the American Gem Short Screenplay Competition, and Finalist in the 2019 Virginia Screenwriting Competition (feature screenplay category). Another interesting fact about Klaustermeyer is she was a Top Semifinalist in the Miss Teenage California Pageant at age 15.