Marilee Talkington is a professional theater, television, film, voice-over, commercial, print, and motion-capture actor. She recently made history again as Morgan Le Fey in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Camelot on Broadway. (She is the first self-identified legally blind actress to be cast in a principal role on Broadway). Her acting career has spanned over 25 years, during which time she has created and performed over 100 characters for Tony Award winning theaters in NYC and Regionally, and has been seen on Apple TV+’s SEE and Extrapolations; CBS’s NCIS & Law & Order; NBC’s FBI Most Wanted just to name a few. She will be seen on the big screen in Miramax’s The Home in 2024. Marilee is also the founder and Artistic Director of AC3 (Access Acting Academy) which is the world’s first professional acting studio for blind and low vision performers. Along with master collaborators she innovated new actor training techniques that remove the visual bias from traditional training and has since been a leading voice in the movement for evolved training and education of blind/low vision performing artists across genres. Marilee was also the founder and Artistic Director of two theater companies where she wrote, directed, video designed, choreographed, fight directed, and produced new experimental theatrical works, including 360 degree sound plays. She has written 7 full-length plays which have premiered in the U.S. and internationally, including her solo show, TRUCE, in which she played 18 characters. It ran across the United States and in the UK on BBC Radio 4. Marilee is the voice of the Guggenheim Museum’s award winning Mind’s Eye Visual Description program, which has had her describing seminal art works in the Guggenheim museums in NYC, Italy, and Spain. She was recently named as the 2024 AFB Helen Keller Achievement Awardee. And is also the recipient of NFB’s 2020 Dr. Jacob Bolotin award. Other awards and fellowships include the California Center for Cultural Innovation Grant for her innovative visceral stage design, a MacDowell Fellow for playwriting, Park Ave Armory’s 100 Women 100 Artists distinction, The American Conservatory Theater’s Carol Channing Trouper Award for excellent and dedication in the theatrical craft. She is currently on the National SAG/AFTRA board of Performers with Disabilities, was a member of the New York SAG/AFTRA board for Performers with Disabilities, a founding member of the Queens Theater Theatre for All program for actors with disabilities, was a founding member of ArtsNYC disability advisory board, and has been an expert presenter and keynote speaker for hundreds of panels, workshops, conferences and podcasts talking about the critical nature of wholeness, inclusion, equity, and authentic representation in story-telling and the arts. She was the keynote speaker in Amazon’s inaugural Accessibility conference and recently presented at CUSP (Columbia’s Distinguished Speaker Series) You can follow her on Instagram: @anartistwarrior