Maya Macdonald is a playwright, actor and native of New York City.

She is bad at sleeping, but rather skilled at dreaming.

Her plays have been read, workshopped and produced with The Bushwick Starr, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, MCC Young Playwrights, The Be Company, Rising Phoenix Rep, 3LD and Astoria Performing Arts Center, among others.

She was Finalist for the 2011 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Semi-Finalist for both the 2009, and 2011 Page 73 Fellowship, a Finalist for the 2010 Mabou Mines Artist Residency, and a 2010 resident playwright at Tofte Lake Center’s Emerging Artists Residency, hosted by Liz Engelman.

Her play Leave the Balcony Open will be produced at 3LD in February, and her play The Really Important People produced by Rising Phoenix Rep the following Spring.

As an actor, Maya grew up performing in the long-running “cult hit” MONO by Steven Tanenbaum (Another Urban Riff).  Other acting credits include, CHURCH by Young Jean Lee(Under the Radar Festival), A Light Lunch, (World Premiere A.R. Gurney, The Flea), as well as numerous plays with Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, including works by Joshua Conkel, Alex Borinsky, Jon Kern, and J Holtham.

Maya is a graduate of Bennington College, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America.

Maya attempts optimism daily, and believes that hope is cutting edge.  She seeks to represent this in the worlds she creates on stage and off.