ATHENA MAROULIS
A creative with more than a decade of experience, Athena Maroulis hails from Ocean Grove, N.J., where she spent her youth honing her artistic talents (in particular, her drawing skills) and reading encyclopedias. She knew then that creativity was her passion. Maroulis attended Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she majored in fine arts with a concentration in film and video. From there, she started Red Bank Post, a small creative and production house. After moving to NYC nine years ago, her creative horizons grew exponentially. She began shooting and directing videos with influential LGBTQ artists like Cazwell, Sherry Vine and Lady Bunny. In 2014, her documentary “A World of Dreams: Voices from the OUT 100” garnered an Emmy nomination. “Art and filmmaking are in my blood. Telling a story visually is something innate, intrinsic to who I am. If I couldn’t tell stories, I’d be without purpose and meaning. I blame it on too many episodes of ‘Guiding Light’ as a child,” she says. Currently, she works as a design director on new business and communications for a media agency in NYC. In her spare time, she’s developing two documentaries: one on her father—a Greek-American immigrant; the other on our nation’s growing opioid addiction. –SLO
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