About

Maiya Pascouche is a queer theatre director-producer-composer-adaptor currently living in London after 9 years in New York. She earned her BFA at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and trained at Atlantic Acting School, Playwrights Horizons, and RADA. Her work has been seen at King’s Head Theatre, Spark Theatre Festival, New Ohio Theatre, The Center at West Park, The Tank, and Playwrights Downtown. Her multi-media production company, Missing Rib Collective, produced the 5-star, award-winning new play 4 girls the first letter e by maguire wilder at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, described by critics as “a revelation” (Binge Fringe) and a “patiently paced…sunlit horror” (The Scotsman). Her queer folk horror musical, untitled mermaid project, is currently in development with Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat.

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Her passion is creating stories about young queer people that are challenging, breathtaking, and bold. She craves spaces that dream of big, impossible stories and has an insatiable appetite for process. She upholds collaboration first and foremost, cultivating teams of creatives from all walks of life who center truth and empathy. She is sonically interested in expansive, haunting atmospheric music that won’t leave you alone, that sticks to your ribs. She has a robust interest in transmedia, often invoking animation, video, dance, music, and video games in her work in an attempt to further dream into worlds bigger than our own. She is interested in the juxtaposition of safety and discomfort and how to explore this sensitively and empathetically. Her main goal is to shape theatrical experiences that provide a space for those represented to dream into, as well as one that galvanizes audiences to think critically about oppressive structures and how to rectify them. It is the vulnerable act of making art that keeps her alive.