The best way to contact us is via email: travelinglemurproductions@gmail.com


We are the Lemurs!

Believe it or not, we are only a team of two. Sometimes we’ll recruit fellow colleagues based on the size of a project, but for the most part we do everything that Traveling Lemur does – just the two of us!

Maria Pretzl

Maria Pretzl graduated from UW-Milwaukee with a BFA in Film Production and a BA in Theatre Studies and regularly studies playwriting at Chicago Dramatists. When she doesn’t have her head up in the clouds, Maria enjoys reading, baking and having long thoughtful conversations with her cat, T’Challa.

Credits Include:

Theatre: HOLIDAY CARDS (Director, Renaissance Theatreworks), CORIOLANA (Director, Cooperative Performance), JUNIPER FLIES (Playwright, Renaissance Theatreworks), ROOMMATES (Playwright, Cooperative Performance), NIGHTMARE BOY (Director, UW-Milwaukee), SHE KILLS MONSTERS (Director, Village Playhouse), SUPER DAD! (Playwright, Chicago Dramatists) and SONGS OF LOVE: A THEATRICAL MIXTAPE (Director, World’s Stage Theatre Company).


Film: The award-winning film SUPER DAD! (Writer/Director), CINDERELLA: THE FIRST 30,000 YEARS (Director/Camera Op/Editor), RICHARD II (Writer/Director) and THE VAMPIRE FORMERLY KNOWN AS DRACULA (Associate Producer).


Podcast: ROOMMATES (Writer, All In Productions)


Nathaniel Schardin

Nathaniel is a multidisciplinary artist that graduated from the Milwaukee Area Technical College’s TV/Video Production program in 2011 where his projects earned him 3 nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the producers of the Chicago/Midwest Emmy® Awards in the Student Production category and won him 4 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association awards. He is also an avid photographer and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Design & Visual Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.