Mari is an actor, singer and musician from Colorado. Mari has spent most of her life performing music from the Mexican tradition known as Mariachi.  She is currently the lead vocalist and vihuela player for the Colorado-based female Mexican trio, Las Dahlias.  Mari has also been in many productions at Su Teatro, worked with Curious Theatre Company, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Violence and Prevention program and has traveled to Egypt where she played in a multilingual version of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Mari is a graduate of Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music and received her MFA in Theatre, Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. Mari is passionate about extending her knowledge of Mariachi music to youth by providing private lessons in voice and vihuela and serving on the board of directors for Colorado Youth Mariachi Program.