Biography
Maggie is and has been a filmmaker, director, writer, casting director, actress and producer. Maggie started acting as a baby. She has acted all over the US and London. She has a double major undergrad degree in Theatre and Political Science and MFAs in theatre directing. She also studied Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA, London).
Her acting studies with Stella Adler, Eric Morris, Sande Shurin, Jeff Goldblum and many other master teachers, have helped her to star in over 450 main stage productions, and to direct over 650 stage, film, television and commercial productions.
She has had built and been the Artistic Director at theatre companies across the U.S. and one in London, her latest being Three Roses Players in Los Angeles.
Maggie has three Film and Television Production Companies. Her first company, One In The Cannes Productions, was born in 2008. She has directed and produced the short films: Pacific Edge, Match Made, Brotherhood, The Phone, Alexander the Great, The Proposal, Smitten, The Promise and Go Green (so far).
Maggie and her films have been the recipient of 71 filmmaking and screenwriting awards, for directing, producing writing. Her film Brotherhood starring Joe Sabatino has been winning awards at film festivals around the world throughout 2022-2023. She has plans for a feature film and series of Brotherhood in the near future.
She had the amazing privilege of directing Ed Asner and Barbara Bain in Pacific Edge, starring Ed Asner, the iconic 7 time Emmy and 5 time Golden Globe Awards, and 3 time Emmy Award winning Grand Dame of the screen and stage, Barbara Bain, Erin Cottrell (The Identical, The New Little House On The Prairie), Michael Marc Friedman, Josh Davis, Pamela Roberts and Rebecca Brooks. The original award winning play and adaptation was written by Barbara Lindsay. So far, not has garnered 29 festival awards and is now a permanent selection on GAIA.
She also had the great privilege of working with Mr. Comedy himself, Carl Reiner, in directing and acting in two staged readings of his full-length play Shakespeare Was Wrong.
Maggie also worked with the late, great, Mr. Joe Bologna in working to bring his excellent play Bitter Angel starring Lou Gossett, Jr. and Bruce Davison to the stage.
In the summer of 2015, Ed and Liza Asner approached Maggie to start a production company and GrantWorks Productions & Development was born. They seek out new material for film and television. GWP & D has 6 feature films and 5 television projects. The Instigator is the feature that they are currently in pro-production with and will be shooting in Savannah, GA in the Fall of 2019.
Together, Maggie and Ed developed several television and film projects. They established an East Coast branch in Atlanta of GrantWorks Productions and they were very busy bringing great film and theatre to the world.
Her friend, mentor and partner, Ed will be greatly missed but his memory and their work together will never die. Goodnight sweet prince, she will miss him until they meet again.
