ANGELE MARAJ is a Trinidadian-American theatre artist and music maker. Since moving to Boston from Florida in 2015, she has performed in many theatre productions and projects with companies such as The Footlight Club, The Theatre Offensive and Company One. She has also had the opportunity to perform in a few new musicals and plays -- most recently, she was featured on the EP for Songs from Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical by J. Sylvan, and performed as Kiswar Al-Hakim in "The Prince and the Painter," a new musical by Kelvyn Koning and Rebecca Wright featured in Moonbox Productions' 2022 New Works Festival.

Those experiences inspired her to begin more deeply exploring her own potential as a creator of new works, and in early 2021 she developed the initial concept for Once Upon A Carnival, an original musical set in Trinidad that uses the mythology and music of the island to explore themes of grief, identity and found family. She is continuing work on the musical as composer and lyricist for the show along with collaborator, book writer and longtime friend Brianna Pierre. Angele is also in the process of completing an original full-length play, "le temps," a metaphysical comedy-drama that explores the question of what makes a life.

Angele's writing and performance tends toward exploring themes of identity, acceptance, and seeking connection with others and meaning in the everyday. Her background as an American child of Indo-Caribbean immigrants and her guiding values of curiosity, kindness, inclusivity and intersectional feminism inform her artistic practice.