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February 12, 2026 • 13 mins

Actress Mara Klein started out on DMV stages and ended up on "The Pitt."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Today's Thursday.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Fans of the pit.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
You know what that means, get a brand new episode tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Did Now go back to last week for a second.
There was a chick who had her leg was jacked up,
spreading infection.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
She had a very.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bad spreading infection, and I believe the last I saw
she was being wheeled into life saving surgery. God Mara, Hello, Hey,
how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
So? Wait, so you're the You're You're the I was
gonna say, chick, No actress, you're the actress who don't
I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
You live or die tonight. I have no idea what
happens to you. But I didn't realize you're from here.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I am Kevin Rockwell, dude, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
So now back me up and said, well, actually, you
know what, so I'll start there and then I'll end
up with you getting getting surgery.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
So obviously you live in Los Angeles now.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, So did you grow up?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
How how old were you or what grade were you
in when you left d C or Rockville.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, I moved out to Los Angeles right after college.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh okay, I got you yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So I've been here for a bit. Uh but yeah, no,
I did kindergarten through you know, high school.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Where did you Where did you go to? Where'd you
go to high school?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Richard Montgomery High School?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh did you really? Oh dude, that's awesome. Did you
know of our show back then?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I did. I listened to you, you know, driving the
school and also you know over the summers that I
would work.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, so this is what it takes to finally to
get you to call.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
All right, I'll take it. I'll take you.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
So.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wait, so like when you were when you were growing up,
did you, like, were you into acting as a as
a kid?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I did every school play from like I don't know,
third grade on that I could. And I did summer
camps at do you know Adventure Theater in Glennaco, Maryland?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, I do not. I'm sorry, I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't. I don't some of your listeners do. It's
a children's theater and I took camp there and then
I taught there when I was old enough as well.
So acting has been the thing I want to do forever.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Hey, So, so like when you said and you said
it's Adventure theater was the was the name of the
place that is?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Is that four kids? Is that like a kid's acting program? Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
It is a it's a theater and they put on
shows four children and then over the summer. I don't
know if it's stilled exit, but day when I was
growing up, they had a children's summer camp. So you
would go for like two weeks and learn a whole
show and it was a musical normally, and then put
it on.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh dude, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. No, that's awesome.
That's awesome. So you knew you knew from.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
The time that you were an itty bitty little kid
that you wanted to be an actress.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, every I mean I think from like the second
I could speak, because like every childhood home video we
have is me trying to put on a show or
recruiting my sister to play parts and be in these shows.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, well so that's what I was going to ask, Like,
obviously you mentioned you have a sister, Like was the
was the Was the family like an acting family or
was it just your your that was just you.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
My family was not an acting family. I think it
was just I was the one who wanted to be
the actor I did. I was born in Los Angeles actually,
and my dad at the time was pursuing being a screenwriter.
So I don't know if that had to do with it,

(04:12):
because my sister has nothing to do with acting. She
she actually coaches soccer. Now, yeah, she's in Maryland, and
oh god, I'm going to get it wrong. It's either
Whitmen or Wooten that.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
She coaches the Yeah, Eric.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Erica may be so goddamn good she's coaching it both.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
You have no idea.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Potentially, Yeah, oh she's at Yeah, we looked up she's at.
She's at Whitman and is sending along a big thank you.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
That's all right.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I asked her what television show you're on, and she's like,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's either the Pit or something else. I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
This is true.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, she was not the biggest fan of coming to
all my plays growing up.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
So your dad, So your dad's living in LA he
wants to be a screenwriter.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
And then that doesn't that doesn't.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't know if it doesn't work out, but in
some way, shape or form, they ended up on the
East Coast.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yes, they met my parents met in DC. My dad
was a lawyer and then got this ith came out
to LA to be a screenwriter. He's going to be
so happy I'm talking about this. And I did have
some success, uh, and then there was a writer.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Strike, as they happened, sure, and he had two.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Children and he, I think, couldn't really get work again
after that, and they moved back to d C, which
is where.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I grew up.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Essentially all of my childhood memories are from there. That's
pretty The acting thing had already gotten me.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I like that. So kind of walk me through how
do you end up?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean, was it just I mean, I'm sure you're
living in Los angele Nless, you're doing your thing in
your auditioning for stuff. So did you just did you
just audition to be on the Pit? Like that's not
a bad show to be on right now?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I got very lucky. Yes, So this was actually my
fifth audition for the Pit. So I had audition for
three different roles during season one, and then actually two
different roles in the first episode of the season. And
I don't know if you know how auditions work, but

(06:30):
we essentially just get scenes for the characters and send
in tapes to casting and then you just you never
hear anything back and you get a call that's like
you got the job or you didn't get the job. Well,
you actually never get a call that you didn't get
the job, so you get a call that you got
the job. And that's that's what happened with Stebbi.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, dude, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, not the part of like you don't hear anything
and you're just sending in tape after tape after tape.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
That part sucks.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
But the but I love and the other thing. Here's
where I give you credit. This is where I feel
like I would be bad at doing what you do.
I would audition for you said this is the fifth
time I would have done the first one, heard nothing
and been like, well f that show.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
I hope it fails, and then never.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Never would have done anything. But I guess you can't.
You just got to keep churning and churning.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm when when you audition enough for
a single show like that, at that point you know
that casting is on your side. But casting is just
like trying to find a part for you, So it's
actually heartening. Instead of disheartening.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh okay, anyway, however you end up with the with
the part that you have, dude, your leg is.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Jack yeah, yeah, and then like yeah, like I saw
the last I saw, and correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
You were getting wheeled up with the uh, with the
mass thing on your mouth, possibly dying.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yes, you do not know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
She she got you know, you know, you know whether
you live or die?

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Will find out more tonight. Do I find out tonight?
Whether you live or die?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I believe you will get a Debbie update.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
At some point.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, all right, very good, very good.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
I know I can't talk about any future though, I know,
I know.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Hey, when they do that, because I think you got it?

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Did when they do that, sternam rub is that painful
or are they just backing off on it trying to
make it look like it's legit?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Are you talking like when they're.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Giving you to see if you're conscious?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
No, I don't think I got that as my character.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
But nothing was painful, Okay, No, dear, one thing.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
They do I got. I got intubated.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I got intubated, right, which I'm assuming they didn't do
in real life.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
That would be painful.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, no, but didn't the the the person who got that,
she was the one with the with the with the
with the husband and the death Duela.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Exactly, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now, the part that I wish you would have gotten
was the eighty year old constipated lady.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I could not watch that scene, dude.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
I had to close my eyes that scene.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
So there's this eighty year old there's this eighty year
old constipated woman. And for anybody who doesn't watch it,
and so they have to go in, she's got like
an impacted colon or something like that. And so the
first doctor that and they they explained it very well.
You take your finger light and like it's an ice
cream scoop and you just get in there. He pulls
out a chunk of duty that comes out of that woman.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
And you can hear him fling it into the bedpan.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
And then I don't remember what the doctor's name is,
Ogilvie or something like that. He's yeah, and you start
hearing the rumbling and they're.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Like you better back up.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
God damn, she sprays the hell out of him.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh God, that was so hard to watch it. And
those problems are still good. There's still nice.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like, well, but is everybody on set like I don't like,
I don't know if everybody just sits in their like
little emergency room bed. We well, that's going on so
they can go from place to place. I would have
erupted the second I saw that happening.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, on this set, because they do shoot so three
sixty you are as an actor in your room, in
your bed quite often because you end up in the
background of other shots. So, yes, there was. All those
people in the beds next to.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Them would have been there during that. I don't know
how much they would have seen, but yes.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well he scoops out that first chunk, though, I was like, god, damn,
it is a teaching hospital.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
That scene.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I felt like I could smell it.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
See, oh sweet, very good, very good. All right, so
we'll find out tonight. We'll find out. Hey, do you
ever do you ever get back this way? Do you
ever get back to Rockville?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah? I come out at least once a year to
visit my parents.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
They're still there in Rockville.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, And what is this thing I was reading I
was trying to read about you? What is the what
is the your audition friend thing that you have.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh yeah, I'm an notish coach for actors as well,
So I work with people here in LA I can
do in person or if they're anywhere in the US
on zoom.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
And just when actors get auditions, just like when I
get auditions and we have to do these tapes, we
uh need someone to read the other lines opposite us.
So I do that and then I coach them through
to help them make the tape that they send into casting.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh that's cool, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
It is what it's just called your audition friend, right, yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Your audition friends dot com. And yeah, I just had
a client book a very big job this week.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
So yeah, because of you, they would have failed completely
with that about you. All right, well listen, Mara, it
is very nice to be I love that you grew
up here.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Thanks. Yeah, I did so many.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Plays and then I will see well either I will
see you in many upcoming episodes of the Pit or
ri I P.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Sorry it didn't work out for you.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I know we'll we'll find out more tonight, all right,
and uh, yes, I will be on another hospital journey
on a different show.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Excellent.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I don't think I can say what that is either.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh wait wait wait what what?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
What?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
What what? Wait? You're doing a different show. You're doing
a different hospital show.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yes, yes, there will. I will be on a different
show having a different ailment shortly in a couple of weeks.
But I will post about that when I can.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Would I know the show Gray's Anatomy? Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Don't know the show. All right, I'll post about it
on my Instagram.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, very well, listen, if you need help running lines,
you let me know.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
We'll him.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Oh, I will give you a call.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
All right, Very good, mar I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Thank you, honey, thank you.
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