Actress, theater director, owner of Circo Spacial. Marlene studied engineering but ended up earning a degree in Marketing. In her early professional career she was living in Cascavel, where she started acting in plays at Circo do Ximbica, as well as writing and directing other shows. She formed the theater group GTEC, organized the Federação Paranaense de Teatro and was very involved with questions related to the artists rights in the Sindicato dos Artistas (Artists Union). Five years later, while she was working for the Secretaria de Planejamento da Prefeitura she was invited to join Circo Vostok as a marketing director. In 1983, she left Vostok and inaugurated Circo Mágico Anhembi. In 1985, she inaugurated Circo Spacial with the intention to display circus acts in a modern way without animals in the ring. The purpose of the Spacial was to became a travelling circus school. Without any artistic background, Marlene is the first woman to run a touring circus in Brazil. Due to this, in 1995, she was given the title, First Lady of the Brazilian, Circus by Beto Carrero. In her successful career, she received many prizes and was honored for her contribution to the Brazilian circus. Besides being an artist and manager, Marlene is also a writer, poet, composer, editorial and musical producer. She is the author of Marketing do Circo, Coração na Lona, Momentos Mágicos, Serragem nas Veias and Any a bailarina. Marlene has always been ahead of her time due to her way of life, living and travelling around in trailers. Despite this, she considers Sao Paulo her home when Spacial comes to the city. Marlene took part in the organization of many circus institutions such as Abracirco and UBCI - União Brasileira de Circo Itinerante (Brazilian Union of traveling Circus) and she is a representative in the Frente Parlamentar Mista em Defesa da Cultura.  As a circus businesswoman, she works together with her seven siblings and two sons, Jacson and Peterson Querubin. Since 1986, she has seen several marriages in her circus whose children make up the second generation of artists. Marlene's only dream is that the circus will be recognized as a Brazilian Cultural Heritage.