Maria Krovatin is an independent producer of film, theater, and music videos under the misguidedly monikered Barf Productions. Until March 2020, Associate Producer and Creative Team at Level Forward. Film: Holler (SXSW 2020), The Assistant (Telluride 2019, Sundance 2020), and Topside (SXSW 2020). Theater: Slave Play, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! (Tony Award winner, Best Musical Revival), Jagged Little Pill, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Obie Award winner, Best New American Play). Short form: Shatterbox Season 3, in partnership with Refinery29. Prior to Level Forward, Krovatin worked for Laura Lewis’ Rebelle Media and Kristin Burr’s Burr! Productions.

Independently, Krovatin has produced, financed, written, and starred in short films featured at 25+ festivals in the US and abroad. Her 2018 film Matter & Manner was the first short ever to receive the SHOUT LGBTQ Jury Award from Alabama’s Sidewalk Film Festival.

Before making an inevitable move to the west coast, Krovatin co-founded Calliope Theater Company in New York City, producing large scale stage plays, readings, and concerts at a plethora of NYC venues. She Associate Produced at ABC's "The Chew," wrote and performed on house sketch teams at The PIT and Upright Citizens Brigade, and starred in "Re:Verse," a pilot named the 2014 New York Television Festival's Best of the Fest & Audience Award winner.

Since graduating from Kenyon College in 2010 with honors in History, Krovatin has worked within a variety of mediums - and often with a strong emphasis on humor - to further the fight for gender equality, inclusion, and representation. She has a low voice, high hopes, and detests avocado.

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