Journeying on Thursdays – Tasting Memory – Poetry Reading with Maria Silverman

Maria will share selections from her written collection Tasting Memory. We will spend a delicious afternoon exploring ancestry, history and experience through food. Whet the appetite of your imagination!

Maria Silverman is an actor and writer living in Chatham. Maria graduated with honors from Yale University with a B.A. in Theatre and Chinese. She completed postgraduate training in Classical Acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Following school, Maria made her professional debut on Broadway in Michael Mayer’s Tony Award-winning revival of A View From the Bridge. Since then, she has appeared in over 60 productions, including 28 world premieres. She often performs in dialect and specializes in playing multiple characters within a production, which has allowed her to make a lifelong practice of observation and empathy. Maria performs and writes as a spiritual practice of connection. She is also a Veriditas-trained Labyrinth Facilitator. Since 2020, she has been a member of Carol Marcy’s poetry circle at the Center. Maria has shared her writing as guest leader of services at the UU churches of Chatham and Provincetown. Her writing has also been collected in a recorded archive of several hundred pieces. Maria is the devoted student of her five (and a half!) year old son Augie, with whom she greets the sun and the moon.