about

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Maia Golden is a screenwriter and director from Brooklyn, currently living and working in Los Angeles and New York City. Her queerness and her Jewish upbringing define her inquisitive, compassionate work, which often explores magical realism and quotidian fantasy -- she is an avid d&d player.

She most recently Script Coordinated The Fifth Wheel (Netflix), where she worked closely with writers and legends Paula Pell & Janine Brito. She Associate Produced Queer as Folk (2022), for which she co-wrote the finale, Sacrilege. She has worked as support staff on a variety of other projects, including Lucky and Physical for Apple TV+, and multiple mini rooms for Amazon & HBO Max. Her debut feature, Music for the Requiem Mass, is currently in post production. Her writing has placed in multiple competitions, and she has work published in multiple online magazines, including Reductress, and McSweeny's Internet Tendency. She was selected as one of Coverfly's Best Unrepped Writers.

Maia graduated from Wesleyan University in 2017 with honors in Film and Theater. She wrote two theses, a film criticism thesis advised by A.O. Scott, and a musical playwriting thesis advised by Quiara Hudes. She continues to enjoy writing criticism, and is currently watching the animated Disney movies in chronological order -- most of them for the first time -- and writing about it on Substack.