MARLEY BOONE
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July 2025
  • Designing Primary Trust at the Hope Repertory Theatre.

June 2025
  • Designing her 5th show with Cornwell's Dinner Theatre, a world premiere musical titled Hit Me With Your Best Shot!

March 2025
  • Back ON STAGE for the first time in years, Marley performed the role of Caroline in Detroit '67 at the Detroit Public Theatre.
  • Made her Flint Rep design debut with the world premiere play, A Driving Beat.
  • Costume designed The 39 Steps with Oakland Community College.

Feb. 2025
  • Costume designed Fourteen Funerals with the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, MI. This is Marley's second show with the company and it is the Michigan premiere of this show.
  • Back at Meadow Brook for her third season, Marley costume designed The Angel Next Door.

Nov. 2024
  • Costume designed a world premiere musical, Charlie Hu$tle with Oakland CC. The show is about the rise and fall of Pete Rose.

Sep. 2024
  • Assistant costume designed both Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet at the Weathervane Theatre in Whitefield, NH. This was Marley's first time working with a Broadway summer stock!

August 2024
  • Designed Million Dollar Quartet at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, her first show with the company.
  • Marley won a Wilde Award for Best Costume Design for the 23/24 Season for her designs on Million Dollar Quartet.

July 2024
  • Designed her second show at Theatre Nova, a world premiere play entitled Doctor Moloch.

June 2024
  • Back at Cornwell's Dinner Theatre for her 4th show, Marley designed Escanaba in Da Moonlight.​

May 2024
  • Marley worked with the internationally renown Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit to design their spring showcase, Yellow Brick Ballads. The show was performed at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and is a world premiere piece written by the young artists of Mosaic.

March 2024
  • Made her design debut at The Purple Rose in Chelsea, Michigan with The Antichrist Cometh, a world premiere play.
  • Designed her 5th show with OCC, Radium Girls.

Feb. 2024
  • Back at Meadow Brook Theatre, Marley designed A Little More Alive, a charming new musical and Michigan premiere!

Nov. 2023
  • Designed her 4th show with OCC, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Oct. 2023
  • Designed Driving Miss Daisy with Tipping Point Theatre in Northville, MI. It's her first show with TPT.

​Aug. 2023
  • Designed The Tempest with Shakespeare in Detroit. The show honored the techno roots of Detroit and the city's creation of the music genre.

July 2023
  • Designed The Cat in the Hat (TYA version) at Cornwell's Dinner Theatre in Marshall, MI.
  • Designed John & Jen, a 2 person musical, for the new Inspired Acting Company in Walled Lake, MI.

June 2023
  • Designed The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Cornwell's Dinner Theatre in Marshall, MI.

May 2023
  • Designed Sex, Please, We're 60! at Cornwell's Dinner Theatre in Marshall, MI.

March 2023
  • Designed The Play That Goes Wrong, her third show with OCC.

Feb. 2023
  • Designed her fifth show with Albion College, A Servant of Two Masters.

Jan. 2023
  • Made her design debut at Meadow Brook Theatre, the largest professional theatre company in Michigan, by designing costumes for Birthday Club.
  • Read the role of Caroline in Detroit '67  for the Detroit Public Theatre at KCACTF in Flint, MI.

Nov. 2022
  • Designed Sanctuary City at Theatre Nova in Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Back at OCC to design her second show, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

July-Aug. 2022
  • Costume designed a post apocalyptic version of Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare Royal Oak.

July 2022
  • Costume designed Little Shop of Horrors at the Croswell Opera House in Adrian, MI. Her first show for the company.

April 2022
  • Costume designed Puffs! at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor.

March 2022
  • Costume designed Twelve Angry Jurors at Oakland Community College at the Farmington Hills, MI, campus.

Feb. 2022
  • Costume designed Censored on Final Approach for Albion College. Her 4th show for the school.

Dec. 2021
  • Assistant costume designed the Boar's Head Festival at Concordia University in Ann Arbor.

Nov. 2021
  • Costume designed Eurydice, her third show at Albion College.

Oct. 2021
  • Assistant costume designed Puffs! at Concordia University in Ann Arbor.

July 2021
  • Back in opera, Marley costume designed La Traviata for the Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey, Michigan.

Jan. 2021 
  • On January 6th, Marley was a special guest for the 2021 KCACTF virtual festival. She hosted a forum on the theatre scene in Philadelphia, informing current theatre students on the thriving theatre scene in Philly.

Sep. 2020
  • Costume designed a socially distanced production of Detroit '67 at Albion College. The production was guest directed by K. Edmonds of the Purple Rose Theatre company.

June 2020
  • Marley will be adding her first Michigan, equity theatre, to her design resume by costume designing ​Prelude to a Kiss at Tipping Point Theatre!  PLAY WILL BE POSTPONED (TBA) DUE TO CORONAVIRUS.

Jan. 2020
  • Traveled to Madison, Wisconsin for the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival with students from Albion. She was a faculty chaperon and advised students on their performances.

Sept. - Oct. 2019
  • Played the Fairy Queen and multiple other roles in The Parliament of Poets in Ann Arbor. The show was with the Apollo Troupe and at the Theatre Nova space.

Sept. 2019
  • Back into film for the first time in 4 years, played the role of Laura in the Indie Film, Just Another Dream. Produced by Blue Bird Productions and filmed in Metro Detroit.
  • Costume designed Intimate Apparel, Marley's first show at Albion College.

Aug. 2019
  • Started new job at Albion College as the costume shop supervisor.

May 2019
  • MOVED BACK TO THE MITTEN!

Apr. 2019
  • Costume designed the Friend Select School's spring musical, Chicago.

Feb. 2019
  • Performed in Philly Theatre Week! Was a part of the Heartbreak Hotel project with PDC (Philadelphia Dramatist's Center).
  • As part of a fundraiser, Marley read multiple roles with Simpatico theatre for a night of staged readings. The theme was "Our Robot Overlords" and it was all scripts produced by A.I.

Dec. 2018
  • Costume designed Scrooge: The Musical for the Ritz Theatre Co. in Haddon Township, New Jersey.

Nov. 2018
  • Marley costume designed the play Our Town at the Friend's Select School in downtown Philly.

Oct. 2018
  • Played Claire / Doyle in a staged reading of The Shaughraun, with The PAC (Philadelphia Artists' Collective), on October 29th.

​Sept. 2018
  • Costume designed Simpatico Theatre Co's 4Solo. It was four, one man shows, and was part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
  • Costume designed Day of Absence for Flying Quilt Productions for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Aug. 2018
  • Costume designed the world premiere musical, Motown Meets Trenton, for the Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, NJ.
  • Finished off the summer festival for the Delaware Valley Opera by designing Faust.

July 2018
  • Costume designed both Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica for the Delaware Valley Opera Company. They performed in rep.

June 2018
  • Costume designed L'Elisir d'Amore for the Delaware Valley Opera to kick off their summer festival.

April 2018
  • Costume designed the Addams Family Musical for the Friend's Select School in downtown Philadelphia.

Feb. 2018
  • Performed the role of Marie in the play Come Back, Little Sheba with the Stagecrafters in Chestnut Hill, Philly.

​Jan. 2018
  • Costume designed Amahl and the Night Visitors for the Delaware Valley Opera Company.
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Oct.-Nov. 2017
  • Understudied the role of Lynn in Red Herring with Act II Playhouse in Ambler, PA.

Oct. 2017
  • Performed the role of Mephistopheles in Marlowe's classic Faustus with Ethos Physical Theatre. Performances were at the Drake theatre in downtown Philly.

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