top of page

Filmmaker

Maia Henkin is an award-winning Off-Broadway playwright and filmmaker. She enjoys writing emotionally raw, provocative dramas and "traumadies" about strong, female protagonists who don't need no man to open the pickle jar.

Her accolades include being in the 2024 NBCU Writers Program (Deadline article here) and WGA East's NYSAF Filmmaker Lab. She was a Finalist for both The Black List/WIF Feature and Episodic Labs, a Semi-Finalist for Austin Film Festival, a Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, being in the top 3% of script for the Final Draft Big Break Contest, being an endorsed writer by Coverfly, an Official Selection at the Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival, being in the top 4% of scripts for WeScreenplay, being a Semi-Finalist in ISA's Launch Pad Pilot Competition, being an Official Selection at HBO's Catalyst Film Festival (for both writing and directing), winning "Best TV Pilot" at the Queen Palm International Film Awards, being a Finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, a Finalist at the Oaxaca FilmFest Global Script Challenge, and being a Semi-Finalist for Stage 32.

In New York, she was a resident artist 
of the Drama Desk award-winning Flea Theatre (under Jim Simpson and Sigourney Weaver). Her plays have been produced at the renowned Lynn Redgrave Theatre, the Hudson Guild Theatre, the Gene Frankel Theatre (Prod. Nylon Fusion, creative team includes Tony award-winner John Patrick Shanley), The Tank (6-time Drama Desk award-winning theatre), the PIT, the Player's Theatre, the Kraine Theatre, and the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre among many others. Her plays and monologues have been used in scene work at NYU Tisch, Columbia, and at the Matthew Corozine Studio.
 
Her play, "Joan", is featured in 365 Women, A Playwriting Project. She is a coordinator with the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI) and is an ALAP Diversity Fellow.

Maia graduated with honors in gender studies from Rhodes College, a BA in English Lit and Creative Writing (dual concentration), a BA in Theatre, and a Minor in Film. While at Rhodes, Maia was awarded the Clifton Scholarship to study 
abroad at St. John's, Oxford University where she studied Shakespeare, Women in Medieval Literature, and Medieval Drama.   

She is repped by Untitled Entertainment.

"[Maia Henkin] examines
dark, difficult subject matter with nuance and compassion." 
       - Scott Kaplan, Broadway
literary manager of
Manhattan Theatre Club.

"[Maia Henkin's] voice
shines throughout [her] work. [Her] storytelling is excellent." 

       - Steven DeBose, Director of  Script Competitions, Austin Film Festival

(Select Writing Samples can be read on the New Play Exchange)

Finalist - Big Apple Film Festival and S
semi-finalist stage 32.jpg
HollyShorts Laurel black.png
2023 AFF Script Competition Laurels (Semifinalist)_Black.png
1200px-Sundance_Institute_logo.svg.png
the-red-list.png
wif_logo.png

Currently in the 2022 festival circuit...

HollyShorts Laurel white.png

Select Stills from "Little Cuts" (Click here to view the trailer)
Written and Directed by: Maia Henkin
Starring: Maia Henkin and Elise Berggreen
Produced by: Elise Berggreen
Director of Photography: Edward Salerno Jr. 

Catalyst Laurel.webp

Select Stills from "OUTLI(a)RS" (episodes 1-3) (Click here to view the trailer)
Written and Directed by: Maia Henkin
Starring: Sonja O'Hara, Aaron Fisher, and Maia Henkin 
Produced by: Sonja O'Hara, Pete Szijarto, and Sebastian Quinn
Director of Photography: Jesse Aragon

Theatrical Production Stills...

family planning.PNG

"Family Planning" (2018) 
at the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre in NYC

Safe.jpg

"Safe" (2016) 
at the Brooklyn Lyceum in NYC

Joan.PNG

"Joan" (2017)

at the Kraine in NYC

Capture2.PNG

"We Were Children" (2017)
at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC

bottom of page