Marisa Dinsmoor
About Me!
Marisa Dinsmoor is a reliable, versatile, and compassionate woman originally from the foggy beach in Morro Bay, California. She attended school at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she fell in love with mountains, snow, and skiing. Currently, she is based in Boulder, Colorado.
She first started performing as a dancer when she was a toddler, inspired by her ballerina mother. For close to seventeen years, she performed and trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and tap dance with the Academy of Dance in San Luis Obispo. Between the ages of 10 and 13, she was cast as a young performer in various productions with the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, including an American premiere musical workshopped by Stephen Schwartz. Here, she got a taste of professional theater and knew early on it was what she wanted to pursue more than anything else.
She decided to attend the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU Boulder) because of the beautiful surrounding nature, excellent well-rounded training, and the inviting community in their BFA Musical Theatre program. While at CU Boulder, she was selected for the Acting Internship with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in 2023, performing in The Winter’s Tale as well as One Man, Two Guvnors. She was asked back the following summer after graduating to be a swing for Macbeth and Merry Wives of Windsor.
Dinsmoor's most recent project was a staged reading of a new climate play called The Light That's Left, with Boulder Ensemble Theater. Her favorite CU credits include: Little Sally in Urinetown, Judy Bernly in 9 to 5, Caesar in Julius Caesar, and Malcolm in Macbeth. She had chances to train in both classical and modern MT singing, choreograph for shows, take diverse dance classes like aerial dance, hip-hop, advanced ballet, and her favorite, African dance (which she took three times), and work in the costume shop for two years. She also pursued her other interests, taking writing, anthropology, and environmental biology classes along the way.
Marisa is well traveled, and has a goal to continue that throughout her life. Outside of theater, she loves writing, cooking, adventuring with friends new and old, taking care of her corn snake Slippy, and reading about fantasy, history, and environmentalism. An ideal day may consist of a sunny picnic with friends or several hours at a great zoo.
