Mary Lin

Participation: Co-founder and Creative Director, Inventing Earth

Multi-disciplinary artist, performer, and poet Mary Lin collaborates with composer Ben Sargent to write and produce operas that marry science, art, and culture in a manner that sheds a new light on each. Mary wrote the poetic verse libretto for The Greenest Branch, an opera about 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen that incorporates innovative new interpretations of Hildegard’s work, for her second masters degree, the Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College (2010). Their second opera, Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders, was previewed in September 2011 at the Great New England Steampunk Convention and performed in full for audiences in Denver and Boulder in 2013.

A woman of many talents, she is an actor, dancer, visual artist, producer, performance poet, and vocalist (jazz, classical, baroque, and contemporary). Her short plays have been produced in Prescott College one-day play festivals for many years, and she is active in the local scene as a workshop leader in somatic performance practices. Getting her start as a professional commercial actress in San Francisco in the 80s, where she sang as ensemble member and soloist with the Ina Chalis Opera Ensemble, she has acted, sung, and performed vocal solos with professional theatre troupes Prescott Independent Theatre and Arizona Classical Theatre, has choreographed and performed dance for the Arizona Classical Theatre Shakespeare festival, choreographed and produced dance pieces for Carpetbag Brigade, and served as 2010 judge for Professional Writers of Prescott’s poetry contest. Mary Lin has been a soloist and ensemble singer with auditioned choirs in the Prescott area for nearly 20 years. She is a founding member of The Flying Body Choir.

She approaches her work from an Integral perspective informed by undergraduate research in molecular biology, work founding and being a member of sustainable business networks and communities, years of study with somatics pioneer Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and two decades of study and practice of esoteric meditation in theosophical/Buddhist traditions.

Originally from New England, she has lived in Arizona, California, the Midwest, and traveled in Europe and the Americas. Mary has been a professional journalist, creative, and public relations writer for over 20 years.

To learn more about Mary’s other professional pursuits, see her profile on LinkedIn.