Alyssa Marvin is a New York-based film, television and theatre actress.
She made her feature film debut playing the lead role in Run Amok which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, with the film described as “a breakout performance from Alyssa Marvin, who embodies Meg in all her layered complexity and affecting persistence as she looks to heal from the impossible.”
The headline of Variety’s review declared the film “Notable for the Performance of Alyssa Marvin” and the review praised “remarkable newcomer Alyssa Marvin” with “the rare actor’s gift of wearing her feelings on the outside even when the character she’s playing is holding them on the inside.”
The Wrap’s review headline similarly highlighted Alyssa: “Newcomer Alyssa Marvin guides this beguiling, darkly comic high school feature with charm and precision“.
Alyssa’s most recent television project is a recurring role on Mindy Kaling’s upcoming Hulu series Not Suitable For Work.
Alyssa is well known for her work on Broadway where she has had the rare honor of appearing in two plays (Appropriate and Grey House) in a single Broadway season.
Appropriate, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, received extensive critical acclaim. Alyssa played Cassidy, a precocious teenager desperate to be treated like an adult.
Variety praised Alyssa’s “incredible performance” and The Hollywood Reporter called Alyssa “superb“.
Alyssa made her Broadway debut as A1656 in the psychological thriller Grey House directed by Joe Mantello.
Entertainment Weekly wrote: “Alyssa Emily Marvin makes A1656 a character that’s impossible not to love with her charming and astute nature and effortless delivery.”
Alyssa first appeared on a professional stage at just six years old when she made her off-Broadway debut.
Since then she’s traveled extensively as a professional actress, including to South East Asia for the International Tour of Annie directed by Martin Charnin.
Alyssa also performed across the United States and Canada in more than forty-five cities over fifteen months in the First National Tour of the musical School of Rock.
Closer to home, Alyssa originated the role of Cathy in Trevor: The Musical off-Broadway and on Disney+ as well as the title role of Edie in Edie Saves the Birds at Theatre East in New York.
Alyssa is currently a student at Yale University double majoring in Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies and Political Science. She is an active member of Red Hot Poker, Yale’s premier sketch comedy group, The Purple Crayon, the oldest collegiate longform improv group in the country, and the Yale Dramatic Association.
It’s summer, the cicadas are singing, and the Lafayette family has returned to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate. Toni, the eldest daughter, hopes they’ll spend the weekend remembering and reconnecting over their beloved father. Bo, her brother, wants to recoup some of the funds he spent caring for Dad at the end of his life. But things take a turn when their estranged brother, Franz, appears late one night, and mysterious objects are discovered among the clutter. Suddenly, long-hidden secrets and buried resentments can’t be contained, and the family is forced to face the ghosts of their past.
– 2024 Tony Award
Best Revival of a Play
– 2024 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Revival of a Play
– 2024 Drama League Award
Outstanding Revival of a Play
– 2024 Outer Critics Circle Award
Outstanding Revival of a Play
“[T]he story holds together with incredible performances from the entire cast, particularly Paulson and Stoll, as well as from Alyssa Emily Marvin, who plays Rachael and Bo’s precocious 13-year-old daughter.”
– Variety
“a superb Alyssa Emily Marvin”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“Even Bo and Rachael’s 13-year-old daughter, Cassidy (Alyssa Emily Marvin, beautifully navigating her character’s wild swings between overconfidence and anxiety), contains mysteries her helicopter parents have yet to discern.”
– TheaterMania
“[Alyssa Emily] Marvin (who all but stole last season’s Grey House as the ghost of a Holocaust victim), capture[s] the in-betweeness of the younger Lafayettes . . . .”
– Deadline
When a couple crashes their car in the mountains, they seek shelter in an isolated cabin. Its inhabitants, though somewhat unusual, are eager to make their guests feel right at home. But as the blizzard outside rages on and one night turns into several, the couple becomes less and less sure of what’s true—about their hosts, themselves, and why that sound in the walls keeps getting louder.
– Alyssa’s Broadway Debut
– Nominated for Two Tony Awards
“Alyssa Emily Marvin makes A1656 a character that’s impossible not to love with her charming and astute nature and effortless delivery.”
– Entertainment Weekly
“The cast is excellent . . . . the children are terrific . . . Alyssa Emily Marvin as the oddly named A1656 conveys the only real compassion to be found.”
– Deadline
“Equally tremendous are the quartet of “sisters.” Caruso, Colby Kipnes, Alyssa Emily Marvin & Millicent Simmonds exist together on stage like a singular organism, moving and speaking as one in an astonishing feat of shared performance. Holloway smartly incorporates American Sign Language into the girls’ shared bond, with Marvin seamlessly translating for Simmonds and the girls sometimes signing only for private thoughts.”
– Theatrely
It’s 1981 in America, and Trevor Nelson is busy navigating adolescence in suburbia while dreaming of a life in show business. When an embarrassing incident at school suddenly puts him in the wrong spotlight, Trevor must summon the courage to forge his own path. A deeply moving and funny story of self-discovery and the power of acceptance, Trevor is about living your best life with a ton of passion… and a touch of pizzazz.
– Filmed Live at New York’s Stage 42 Exclusively for Disney+
– Based on the Academy Award-winning 1994 Short Film of the Same Name
“Alyssa Emily Marvin deserves mention for her shining role as Cathy”
– TheaterMania
“Kid standouts include…
Alyssa Emily Marvin”
– Slash Film
