Maria is a graduate and member of the Dance Teachers’ Club of Boston and its affiliate, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. Maria presently studies at Jeanette Neil’s Dance Studio in Boston, Broadway Dance Center, Luigi Jazz Center, and Steps-on Broadway in New York. She has attended an intense summer teacher’s program at Broadway Dance Center in New York City and served as the Summer Dance Director at Lawrence Academy for many years. Maria also served as the Dance Director for the Groton School from 2012-2019. Another side project of Maria’s involved teaching a Gymni-Crickets program at Ayer Kiddie Depot. She participated in various workshops over the past twenty-seven years, including 2012 PULSE in New York City, the Northeast Workshop of 1999-2001, 1999 through present Summer Arts program at Lawrence Academy, Dance Olympus Convention 1988-98, DTCB Convention in 2003, and Joe Tremaine’s Convention 1992. Maria has performed A Chorus Line with the Action Boxboro Theater and choreographed Carousel for the same group. She was the choreographer for Finian’s Rainbow at Mount Wachusett Community College and Mame at Ayer High School in 1999.