Three and a Half Anne Franks was a finalist for the 2023 O'Neil Playwrights Conference
and The Leah Ryan Award
I wrote a monologue for Joel Marsh Garland for 24 Hour Plays called Baby Just Say, Chess
Three Anne Franks was chosen to be a part of Sam French’s 45th Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Here’s a little interview I did with more info on the play and me.
Delighted to be named a semi-finalist for the WP Lab.
raw pasta was a finalist for the 2020 FEWW Prize!
Deeply grateful for this opportunity to develop and share brunch in front of an audience, with an absolutely brilliant team of artists, especially in the light of so many shows having to close early due to our current pandemic. Love and safety to all.
As part of my 2019-2020 Writing Fellowship with The Playwrights Realm, brunch will have two public readings on 2/25 at 3pm and 7pm as part of the INK’D Festival of plays.
brunch by Maya Macdonald
Directed by Annie Tippe
Tuesday, February 25th at 3PM at 7PM
Beth has a husband and four (count it, four!) new blenders, bangs keeps having sex that hurts but at least she's got great bangs, and Lynn's just on the hunt for a good appendage to spend the night with. As for Clarissa? She just really doesn't want to die alone. In this biting examination of female tropes and the search for "Mr. Right," the love of your life might terrify you, might even kill you, but hey – at least he's got great dental.
Excited to be a part of MeetCute LA with these amazing collaborators:
DON’T WALK HOME IN THAT SHIT, GIRL!
by Maya Macdonald, directed by Jessica Hanna
Featuring: Kortnee Brielle, Meg Cashel, Tad Coughenour, Conor Murphy and Noelle Urbano
Check out some photos and info on these amazing collaborators here!
Starting January I will be a part of the Project Y 2020 Playwrights Group
Brunch is having its first internal workshop this week with The Playwrights Realm
And just after Three Anne Franks closes in LA it opens again at Virginia Tech:
Three Anne Franks
A Play by Maya Macdonald
November 19, 20, 21 at 7:30pm
Theatre 101, 200 College Avenue, VT campus
Three people audition to play Anne Frank in a production that could not obtain the rights to a single word from Anne’s diary. As interpretations vary, we begin to see the difference between who Anne Frank was and who we need her to be. With biting humor, this short play explores complications of privacy and authorship, appropriation, race and Jewish identity, and the performance of history.
Director: Courtney Surmanek
Assistant Director: TeAsya Hudson
Stage Manager: Haylee McGeorge
Ensemble: Destinee Jones, Laura Schneider, Grace Shields, Bryanna Batts
RSVP is not necessary but welcome at courtneymeranda@vt.edu. Seating is on a first-come basis.
Three Anne Franks is a studio assignment conducted as part of the curriculum of the Theatre Department’s Directing & Public Dialogue Program.
A one-act version of my play THREE ANNE FRANKS
will be a part of Echo Theater Company’s PC Festival of short plays: 11/6-11/10 & 11/15-11/17.
Directed by Vicki Perlman
with Erin Henriques, Clarissa Thibeaux, Tessa Hope Slovis, and Caitlin Zambia.
So excited to announce that I am a Playwrights Realm 2019-2020 Writing Fellow!
a workshop presentation of my play raw pasta is happening this weekend at The New Ohio Theater
BRUNCH has a reading at Echo Theater Company on April 24th @ 7:30PM
directed by Katie Lindsay with Boni B. Alvarez, Lindsay Graves Fisher, Erin Henriques, Susan Louise O’Connor, Jenny Soo, Libby Woodbridge
Please come see!
3269 Casitas Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90039
theboxoffice@echotheatercompany.com
Three Anne Franks was a Finalist for Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre’s New Play Commission
RAW PASTA was a semi-finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
RAW PASTA was a Semi-Finalist for Seven Devils Playwright Conference
A one-act version of Three Anne Franks is published by Smith and Kraus in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2018
Come see a reading of my play BRUNCH!
Thursday, January 3rd at The New Ohio @ 7pm.
with Betsy Hogg, April Matthis, Sam Morales, Sharina Martin and Zach Wegner