Jennifer Marquis-Muradaz is the Director of ESC US.
Jen has a Master's degree in Motion Picture Producing from the University of Southern California and an undergraduate theatre degree from New York University, where she studied with Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman, and Augusto Boal.
She ran the ESC ship and produced Mickey B before returning to her native Florida to expand the work of ESC in the US, where she has been making short films, documentaries and public service announcements for television with youth and at-risk students in the Florida public school system. Between 2005 and 2007 she produced 15 films with offenders and ex-offenders, and co-produced a film on the plight of war orphans in Sierra Leone, Africa.
Jen co-founded the Cynosure Screenwriting Awards in Los Angeles, an international screenplay awards program for film scripts with female and minority protagonists. She also worked for Rattler Productions in New York, touring plays with interracial casts and themes around the United States. She has also taught film at Mercy College and published several works on the intersection of religion, film and parenting.
She recently co-authored an article on Mickey B, with director Tom Magill, in Dr Sue Jennings' book Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues, published by Routledge. She currently teaches film production, editing, and screenwriting in theArts Academy at Edison State College.
