Marie-Françoise Theodore

Biography

Marie-Françoise Theodore is a Haitian-American artist and writer who has made a name for herself in film, television, and theatre through her work as a writer, actor, and filmmaker. A 2006 recipient of the Women In Film/General Motors Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers, she has also been recognized with a Frances E. Williams Artist Grant for Writing and shortlisted for several prestigious screenplay programs. Her experimental narrative shorts "rebel in the soul" and "bloodmemory" have won awards at film festivals nationwide and abroad.