Maia Directors

For organizations and artists engaging with stories from the Middle East and beyond

Maia Directors
  • Jun 2, 2020

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 theater...

Maia Directors
  • May 25, 2020

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...

Maia Directors
  • Mar 9, 2020

Meet Aysan Celik

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

Maia Directors
  • Feb 3, 2020

Meet Damon Owlia

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

Maia Directors
  • Jan 6, 2020

Meet Madhuri Shekar

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

Maia Directors
  • Dec 19, 2019

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 pra...

Maia Directors
  • Dec 19, 2019

Meet Pooya Mohseni

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

Maia Directors
  • Dec 19, 2019

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, ...

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