Maia Henkin

Bio
Maia discovered that she wanted to be an actress at the age of six, when she played Mr. Mole in a play about recycling. Fast forward a few years later, Maia has performed with the BATS (Flea Theater), Woolly Mammoth Theater, Skeleton Rep, The Tank, Columbia Stages, the Lynn Redgrave Theatre, UglyRhino, the Player's Theater, CityShow, Lexington Ensemble, Access Theatre, Manhattan Rep, and Theater Memphis among others.

Her film credits include: It's All In My Head (Amazon Prime, dir. Alyssa Michek), Vial (dir. Emmy-nominated Sonja O'Hara, premiered at Santa Barbara Film Festival, Narrow (dir. Anna Chazelle, premiered at Fantasia Film Festival and is now on AMC's Shudder), Quinceañera (SXSW dir. Angelique Molina, WIF Insight Fellow), I Miss Us (BFI alum dir. Roth Rind, Horror Haus Festival "Audience Choice Award" winner.

She has taken classes in film acting (Margie Haber/Adrienne Weiss), method acting (Elizabeth Kemp at the Actor's Studio), voice (Carole Blankenship), Shakespeare (Claire Warden, Sybille Bruun-Moss, Nick Hutchinson), and stage combat (Cookie Ewing). She is SAG eligible.

She is also an award-winning Off-Broadway playwright and has had work produced at The Hudson Guild Theatre, the PIT, the Lynn Redgrave Theatre, the Player's Theater, the Gene Frankel Theatre, Littlefield, the Kraine Theater, The Tank, the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre, the NY LGBT Community Center, and Manhattan Rep among many others. Her films include Quinceañera (dir. Angelique Molina), Broken (dir. Ethan Scarduzio), and An Escape (dir. Ted Boozalis). Her play, "Joan", is featured in 365 Women, A Playwriting Project.

She is an ALAP Diversity Fellow and works with the LA Female Playwrights Initiative.

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

She is bicoastal and travels between LA and NYC. She is owned by a cat named Pearl.

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