Marylyn Varriale is a composer/arranger, music dramatist and educator. Among her creative credits are: the score and lyrics to Turn Off! an anti-drug musical play for teenagers which premiered on Broadway; the soundtrack for Simon and Schuster's CD Rom Millennium Mantra, and various Radio/TV commercials for which she has received both local and national recognition.

Her most recent creative endeavor is Letterville, a unique musical approach to a phonics program - published by The National Reading Styles Institute (NRSI, Inc.).

Trained in the Lincoln Center Aesthetic Education model, Marylyn is a Teaching Artist at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at Long Island University.