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A Maia Directors Update

Like so many of us at this time, Maia Directors is in a moment of transition. There are two pieces to this transition that we want to...

A Statement of Commitment from Maia Directors

We have never explicitly named ourselves as an anti-racist organization. We do that now. We are seeing a flood of statements from...

An Offering From Maia Directors

When the going gets tough, the Middle Easterners get cooking (and eating). As our beloved theatre artists and institutions try to weather...

Meet Aysan Celik

Aysan (she/her) is an actor and theater maker focused on new plays, experimental performance, interview-based theater, and comedy. Tell...

Meet Damon Owlia

Damon Owlia is an actor and producer focusing on civic-minded storytelling and navigating the intersection between art and technology....

Meet Madhuri Shekar

Madhuri Shekar is a playwright and screenwriter, who counts Chennai, Los Angeles, and Jersey City as her different homes. Tell us...

Meet Kholoud Sawaf

Kholoud Sawaf is a Syrian director and creator living in The United States whose work is driven by physical storytelling and ensemble...

Meet Pooya Mohseni

Pooya is an Iranian-American actor, writer, filmmaker, and transgender educator & activist, born and raised in Tehran, now based in New...

Meet Dina El-Aziz

Dina is one of the busiest costume designers working today. Current and upcoming projects include Nine Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo,...