Biography

Maureen VanTrease is an American actress, playwright and producer, serving as Executive Producer and lead actress on "Welcome To Belle View", (2025) a pilot exploring the world of skilled nursing facilities.

A native of Lancaster, PA, she got her start as a mouse in the musical Two By Two, then got the stage bug at age 17 when she played Grandma in Albee's "The Sandbox". She has been on stage ever since, having performed in well over a hundred shows and musicals in regional, London and New York theaters. With a triple major BA in Theater, English and Education, she taught 7th Grade English while performing in the SPT theaters of Tampa Bay, winning Best Actress in the Tampa Bay area for her performances in as Agnes in Agnes of God, Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac and Sonya in Uncle Vanya. She moved to London to study musical theater at Mountview Conservatoire for the Performing Arts in their postgraduate program, and then moved to New York City.

She has been involved in the NYC Fringe Festival and Planet Connections Theater Festivity, winning a Best Supporting Actress award for "Hell Is Where the Heart Is" and a Best Actress nomination for "The Closet". Her work as a playwright has garnered her a Best Adaptation nomination at Planet Connections for her play "Those Whistling Lads: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker" where she also played the lead role of Dorothy.

In NYC, she began working in television and film. She has starred in Leitmotif as a shy stalker, and then as Terri in 8:46, a film about 9/11 which went to the Cannes Marché du Filme and was subsequently shown on Netflix. She has worked with Howard Reichman on his HBO TV PIlot Wired City and co-produced and starred in The Spy Who Scratched Me, a 48-Hour Film Fest entry that has gone on to screenings in numerous film festivals. She shared in the Festival International Cannes Award at the French Independent Film Festival for Best Cast in My Dinner With Schwartzey, and most recently, associate produced Greetings From Sarajevo featuring the magnificent talent of the late Kathryn Kates.
- IMDb mini biography by: Maureen Van Trease