Maggie is an award-winning writer/director with over 14 years of experience creating original content in the narrative, documentary and commercial space—embracing entertaining, witty and deeply human storytelling.
Using color and movement to build evocative worlds within the strict geometry of a frame, Maggie has a particular love for stories that dramatize emotional transformation through a crisis in the body.
Maggie loves to balance drama with humor and enjoys working in the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, romantic comedy, children's content, documentary and anything that includes diversity (including animals!).
Maggie's short film UNBOUND, a fable about a penniless Japanese girl whose fingers sprout priceless silk threads, won multiple awards, including Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy film and an audience award at the HollyShorts Festival. An official selection at numerous Academy Award-qualifying festivals, UNBOUND is a sensitive and visually haunting adaptation of "Reeling in the Empire," a short story by the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated writer Karen Russell.
Her screenplay (Zero to Sixty) won multiple awards, and her first feature film (O, Brawling Love), was just released on Amazon Prime. Her next feature (SAY IT IN GERMAN), starring Sarah Drew (GREY'S ANATOMY, AMBER BROWN), will shoot summer of 2024.
She is currently developing two TV pilots, and recently wrote and directed a TV pilot for a biblical series set to go into production in spring of 2025.
Maggie is an alumna of the prestigious American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, the Fox Filmmakers Lab, A&E's Broad Focus, and Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative for television directors. She also served as executive assistant to showrunner David Greenwalt on NBC's GRIMM.
Maggie’s commercial and mini-documentary work ranges from luxury brands to mission-driven nonprofits, some of her clients have included: Disney Digital, Paramount Studios, Bank of America, Saatchi & Saatchi, Toyota, Tongal, National Sikh Campaign, Leo Diamonds, Babble, PayPal, USA Network and The Bouqs.com.
Maggie especially enjoys creating compelling content that features real people. She believes that everyone has a story to tell and finds it an honor and a joy to interview subjects and mine their narrative with delicacy and respect.
Although a native to Los Angeles, Maggie currently lives in Santa Fe, NM with her husband and magical dog, Chester, a Coton De Tulear.
