“With Irene it was never about what was lost. It was about what remained. “ Michelle Memran, director of the award-winning documentary film ‘The Rest I Make Up’.

The Rest I Make Up distills fifteen years of connection between the filmmaker Michelle Memran and the playwright María Irene Fornés into an emotionally raw jaunt into the void. “ “An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease.” Richard Brody, The New Yorker. August 2018.

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Michelle Memran, Filmmaker, Illustrator, Director of The Rest I Make Up a film about Maria Irene Fornés

Michelle Memran, filmmaker, illustrator and director of The Rest I Make Up, an award-winning documentary film about widely influential (yet largely unknown) Cuban-American playwright, educator and director, Maria Irene Fornés.

This is a beautifully touching and inspiring film about friendship, memory loss, love, creativity, imagination, artistry, trust and essentially, life.

www.TheRestIMakeUp.com

Michelle Memran is a journalist, illustrator, and filmmaker. For nearly twenty years she’s worked as a reporter, researcher, and editor in New York City. She’s also written for numerous publications,including Newsweek, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Vanity Fair and American Theatre magazine. Her oil pastel portraits have been commissioned by The New York Times Book Review, as well as by various theatrical and film productions, including The Civilians’ production of The Ladies written by Anne Washburn, and the independent film Adrift in Manhattan, starring Heather Graham. The Rest I Make Up is Michelle’s first film, for which she has received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Frameline Completion Fund, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the JKW Foundation, and more than 600 individual donors. While working on The Rest I Make Up, Michelle was awarded fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and Brown University, where she twice served as a visiting artist in the University’s Theatre Arts.

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Moniquea Marion– Toronto based actor, comedian, and writer specializing in solo sketch and character comedy.

Moniquea Marion is a Toronto based actor, comedian, and writer specializing in solo sketch and character comedy. She’s a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Toronto and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in NYC.

Marion is a twice nominated contender for Best Female Improviser by NOW Magazine in 2014 & 2015. Marion is a content juggernaut responsible for creating and starring in 3 webseries, including Moniquea Marion 365, Food Porn, and the soon to be released, Fuel Up, resulting in hundreds of videos. Marion is best well known for her character comedy and her ambitious 2016 webseries, Moniquea Marion 365 where she wrote, starred, edited and shot a unique character video for every day of the year resulting in 365 character videos.

Marion is an award winning writer and producer for the comedic short, Mom Jail, winning the best short for the HFX 72 hour film festival, Best Micro Short in Indie Gathering Film Festival, and Best Screenplay Short Film at Genre Blast. Marion is also the executive producer and co-star of An Endless Procession, and was a 2017 Toronto Arts Council Recipient for this film.

Marion was a selected participant for the 2018 Women On Screen Webseries Incubator for her original webseries, Demon Child.

Marion has written, produced, and starred in 2 successful one woman comedic Fringe shows, Glorious Loser in 2018 and Mumsical in 2015. Additionally Marion is a veteran performer of the Toronto and Montreal Sketch Comedy Festivals, The Big City Improv Festival and the SheDot Festival. Prior to that in 2014, Marion, wrote, starred, and produced 8 one woman comedy shows, Doing It with Moniquea Marion, out of her monthly residence at Comedy Bar in Toronto.

Marion was a comedic content contributor to the intersectional online magazine, Nasty Women’s Press, and can be found teaching improv throughout Toronto. She’s currently working with Bell Fibe TV1 to produce Fuel Up into a tv show focusing on the female motorcycle riding community in Ontario. Watch for episodes to be released January 2020

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