Marianne Mason
- Actress
New York Film Actor, Spokesman, and Foundation President The Cordell
Hull Foundation for International Education (CHF)
Marianne Mason began her acting career in the 1980s, after studying acting in New York City for five years with eclectic coaches, Stella Adler, Ron Burras, Robert Ravan from Uta Hagen Studio, Janet Ward of the Actors Studio.
After working for 15 years as an actress, primarily performing in films, television, and voice overs, Marianne became head of CHF, a Manhattan-based not-for-profit organization that sponsors hundreds foreign teachers annually from 55 countries working in all parts of the US, where she had been volunteering her time for over a decade.
With a degree in French, and experience in teaching, she was equipped to expand teaching exchange programs in one third of the French-American Schools in North America, fulfilling the mission of the Foundation to improve relations between the US and other countries.
Acting skills help her effectively present fifteen orientations each year in New York, California and other states as well as in Paris for the French government, and in Greece in 2009. She works closely with the Ministries of Spain, Greece, and Italy and with China's Confucius Institutes.
After taking the reins of CHF in 1996, Marianne obtained an MS degree in Non-Profit Management from New School University in New York (2005), then later a Certificate for Non-Profit Leaders from Stanford University Grad School of Business (2008). She is fluent in French and Spanish.
Marianne Mason began her acting career in the 1980s, after studying acting in New York City for five years with eclectic coaches, Stella Adler, Ron Burras, Robert Ravan from Uta Hagen Studio, Janet Ward of the Actors Studio.
After working for 15 years as an actress, primarily performing in films, television, and voice overs, Marianne became head of CHF, a Manhattan-based not-for-profit organization that sponsors hundreds foreign teachers annually from 55 countries working in all parts of the US, where she had been volunteering her time for over a decade.
With a degree in French, and experience in teaching, she was equipped to expand teaching exchange programs in one third of the French-American Schools in North America, fulfilling the mission of the Foundation to improve relations between the US and other countries.
Acting skills help her effectively present fifteen orientations each year in New York, California and other states as well as in Paris for the French government, and in Greece in 2009. She works closely with the Ministries of Spain, Greece, and Italy and with China's Confucius Institutes.
After taking the reins of CHF in 1996, Marianne obtained an MS degree in Non-Profit Management from New School University in New York (2005), then later a Certificate for Non-Profit Leaders from Stanford University Grad School of Business (2008). She is fluent in French and Spanish.
