"I'm an enthusiastic and supportive writing tutor. I pride myself on my ability to help those I tutor not only with their writing, but also their belief and excitement in their writing. I am a playwright and screenwriter who has extensive experience working with very young students as well as adults. For more info about me you can read my bio below, and/or please reach out to me. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Maya teaches creative, essay, screenwriting and playwriting. Currently she teaches at Molloy University. She has been a teaching artist at The Prep and The Beacon School, where she was also playwright in residence.

Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow where she developed her play brunch which was an Honorable Mention for The RelentlessAward, a Finalist for O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for Theatre503’s Playwriting Award in London. Her plays also include Three Anne Franks (Finalist, Rattlestick Playwrights Commission), Raw Pasta (Semi-Finalist, The O’Neill and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Leave the Balcony Open (Finalist, Princess Grace Award) and is currently working on a new play they say hearing is the last sense to go about her younger brother who passed away the early pandemic. Her plays have been seen and/or developed at Rattlestick, New Ohio, Echo, MeetCute LA, Oye Group, Tofte Lake, Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Theater Young Playwrights, Three Legged Dog, The Flea, Rising Phoenix Rep, JACK, Dixon Place, among others.

Maya’s TV and Film projects include work with FishLadder Productions and Titmouse Inc.

She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Hunter College where she studied with Annie Baker, Brighde Mullins, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and received the Irv Zarkowr Award for Excellence in Playwriting." less...