About the Master Teacher:
Marishka S. Phillips is a native New Yorker, Brooklyn born. She started performing at the age of 8. At age 13, she appeared in a European tour of Raisin and further developed her talents at Alvin Ailey’s School of Dance, Broadway Dance Center (scholarship) and Fordham University. By the age of 19, she landed a featured role and understudy to the star on Broadway, in the musical Uptown: It’s So Hot, directed by Maurice Hines She went on to perform in such musicals as Bubblin’ Brown Sugar, Fame: The Musical, The Wiz and The Me Nobody Knows. Phillips has also done character work on A Different World, the spin-off of The Cosby Show.
Phillips takes a very organic and spiritual approach to the craft of acting similar to her mentor Ms. Batson’s Exer-Actor classes. She has worked as the on-set coach for Kerry Washington (Ray, The Last King of Scotland) and Tasha Smith (Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, Why Did I Get Married). Other notable clients include Bre Scullark (America’s Next Top Model) Deborah Cox, Raphael Saadiq, Kevin Phillips, and Nafessa Williams (One Life to Live).
