-Professional Actor - Actors Equity Association  

-Model & Actor - Talent Management Group, Inc. 

-Television Personality - KUTV2 "Deena on the Local Scene" every Thursday 

-On Camera Reporter - Stringham Schools 

-YouTube Partner - BeanerLaRue & TheDeenaShow

-Blogger - TheShapeshiftingPoet.blogspot.com

 

 

 

Deena Marie has built up popularity as a local personality. Within the last year she was named Face of Utah, SLC's Community Celebrity, and SLC Sweetheart!

 

Be it onstage, on set, or on camera, Deena Marie has spent many years creating and performing.

 

A member of Actors Equity Association, she is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City, NY. The ATC was founded by David Mamet and William H. Macy. While a student, she was chosen to perform for Mamet himslef. Upon graduating, she was cast in an Atlantic Children's show and performed in the Off Broadway Atlantic Theater.

 

NYC training also includes Juilliard and NYU's Cap21. In 2012, Deena Marie went back to New York for Shakespeare and Classical training with Seth Barrish of The Barrow Group and Red Bull Theater Company.

 

Theatre, drama, and classical work came first and remains a great love.

 

Recent highlights include the title role in "Hedda Gabler" with The Sting & Honey Theatre Company, and Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Radical Hospitality Theatre.

 

December 2007 was the start of her first YouTube Channel, BeanerLarue. There, her mostly comedic videos have over 7 million views and 33 thousand subscribers.

 

This led to becoming a Ford Fiesta Agent in 2013 and 2009! A weekly adventure is assigned incorporating the car, filmed, and uploaded to her YouTube channel. The 2013 Fiesta Movement included Deena Marie interviewing the top six American Idol® contestants, flying a plane, and interviewing bands at Lollapalooza!

 

Deena Marie's most popular videos are her "Twilight" musical paroides. The first is at over 2 million views and has been seen on MTV's, "It's on with Alexa Chung."

 

She was featured on G4TV's, "Attack of the Show" and ranked among the top ten "Hottest Women on the Web". She was also awarded a Salt Lake Magazine "Best of the Beehive" for The Comedienne and a City Weekly "Best of Utah" in Media.

 

For over three years she created, edited, and appeared in a weekly comedic videos and counducted interviews for City Weekly's SLC website.

 

As a television host, Deena Marie has appeared on local morning news as a fill in feature reporter, her own original characters, celebrity impersonators, and guest host.

 

March 2015 was the start of her own weekly entertainment segment, "Deena on the Local Scene" on KUTV2 every Thursday at 5:40 am MST 

 

Deena Marie is on camera reporter for Stringham Schools, a real estate school in Utah currently building new content for the online portion of their curriculum. 

 

She is often the emcee for many live events, and remains a fixture in the local press with recent features in SLUG Magazine, Utah Chic Magazine, The Salt Lake Tribune, and Salt Lake Magazine.

 

Modeling highlights include Got Beauty, Salt Lake Magazine, Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine, Elevate Magazine, Time Magazine, and The Salt Lake Tribune.  

 

When not performing, you can find Deena Marie spending time with her husband Matt, their son Charlie, and dog, Noodles.

 

 

Instagram: @deena_marie 

Facebook: Deena on the Local Scene, Deena Marie Manzanares

Twitter: @DeenaMarie