Born in Manila, Philippines, Marcus Gualberto is an advocate for equity, diversity, inclusion and intersectionality for theatre artists on and off stage.

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In the Fall of 2023,Marcus directed two staged readings (Rage Gap by Joe Moe & You've Reached Justin by Christian St. Croix) for The Other Side of Silence's Queer Spooky Shorts '23 at The Flea Theater.

 

Other recent projects include: the workshop of Wayne L. Firestone's SENSELESS (Rogue Theatre Festival Encore!, Theatre Row); Nélida Tirado's autobiographical flamenco-infused dance theatre piece Dime Quién Soy? (2023 Queens Theatre, 2022 Hostos Center for the Arts); Joe Moe's Deny We Were (world premiere, The Wild Project).

 

A Co-Founder of Regeneration Theatre, Marcus directed Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play The Shadow Box at The Gene Frankel Theatre. For the company, he has also directed William M. Hoffman’s 

As Is (Workshop Theater) and co-directed Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings (13th Street Rep).

 

Other NY credits include: Fallen Man (Players Theatre); Still Life on Campus (Chain Theatre); Quiet Enjoyment (world premiere, Playroom Theater); Dead Zone & Lunch with Your Editor (NY Lives Festival @ Producer’s Club); Sonam’s Gift (Teatro LATEA); The Madness of Memory

The Secret Theatre); and the workshop production of ETHER: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (IRT Theater).

 

For four consecutive summer seasons with Actors Conservatory Ensemble / TreePeople, he produced and directed An Alfred Hitchcock Radio Play Double Feature (Rebecca and Shadow of a Doubt starring Academy Award nominee Robert Forster; Lifeboat and Strangers on a Train; The Thirty Nine Steps and Suspicion; Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Notorious featuring Hans Tester) at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre, Los Angeles.

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Marcus lives in The Bronx and serves as Deputy Director for BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance whose programming serves women, POCs and the LGBTQ+ community.