Heidi Marshall’s career has spanned several media and arts professions: theater director, casting director, opera director, and film director. Heidi has received prestigious awards for her directing: including the NY Drama League Theater Directing Fellowship and the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Directing Workshop for Women Fellowship. In 2005, AFI selected Heidi as 1 of 8 women with professional backgrounds to support in the transition to directing film and television.  Heidi’s first short film, A through M, is beginning its film festival circuit premiering at the prestigious Cinequest Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Palm Beach International Film Festival.

Other professional directing credits from the past 15 years include an invitation from director Baz Luhrmann (film director, Moulin Rouge) to be the Resident Director on Luhrmann’s La Boheme on Broadway and at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theater, where she remounted/directed it for Luhrmann. Luhrmann entrusted his productions to Heidi’s detailed direction of acting and visual components.  She was also Resident Director of the Off-Broadway hit, Shockheaded Peter, artistically guiding the show in its American transfer from London’s West End.  Independently, Heidi has filmed a dance documentary series, Moving America.  She is currently Associate Director on Off-Broadway play, John Guare’s Landscape of the Body, starring Lily Taylor.

Heidi was the lead Casting Director for over 70 productions of theater, film, voice overs, and commercials while working with Bernard Telsey Casting in New York. Heidi’s casting ranged from Broadway musicals (RENT, Hairspray, Aida, Paul Simon’s The Capeman, etc.) to Off-Broadway (award-winning LAByrinth Theater Company for two years) to regional theaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theater, etc.) to independent films (Downtown:A Street Tale) to studio films (Finding Forrester, Blair Witch Project 2).  Heidi has a highly respected eye for actors.

Heidi has been a guest acting teacher at The New School (Actor’s Studio), Colorado College, and for the company of Celine Dion’s A New Day in Las Vegas.  Heidi is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.