HI THERE!
WHO ARE YOU?
(Nice to meet ya!)
My name is Maura Rose Pawelko and I'm a Chicago-based Musical Theatre performer!
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I am a proud graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University where I earned my BFA in Music Theatre. There, I learned to embrace the spectrum of wacky ingenue that I live within. Some select IWU credits include: Sunday in the Park with George (Dot), The Fantasticks (Luisa), and Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Teresa).
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Growing up my mom had a rule for me and my brothers: we had to be enrolled in at least one arts activity. I tested the ropes in lots of areas; From drawing, painting, dance, knitting, clarinet, guitar, I finally landed on musical theatre when I was 12 years old and I haven't stopped since. I've always loved the way language and music can combine to really expand the way we experience the world. Of all the arts, theatre is where I truly found community.
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WHATCHA BEEN UP TO?
2024 was a busy year for me!
I started off the year in the Ensemble of A Bronx Tale with Surging Films and Theatrics. I then spent the summer in Cripple Creek, Colorado playing Logainne ScwartzandGrubenierre in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Butte Theater.
I finished summer strong back at my favorite place: Long Beach Island, NJ at the Showplace Ice Cream Parlour as a Singing Waitri!
Throughout the end of 2024, I returned to Chicago to juggle swinging The Wolves at No Dogs in the Kitchen AND working as an Immersive Performer at Bluey X CAMP!
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?
This spring I was back at Surging to live out my Delta Nu dreams in their production of Legally Blonde!
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This summer, I've been back at The Butte where I recently finished up playing the heroine in their summer melodrama The Colorado Colleen and Alison in BEEHIVE! The 60's Musical!
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Now I'm back in Chicago and already have a few very exciting things line up for 2026!
