Playwright and Educator

MAIA MATSUSHITA McBRIDE (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer and educator. Proudly Black and multiracial, she has found a theatrical home with The Liberation Theatre Company's Writer Residency Program, and The Fire This Time Festival's Inaugural Writers Group and New Works Lab. She has presented work with the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwright Playground, C-MORE Festival at the cell, National Black Theatre's Keeping Soul Alive Reading Series, 48Hours in... Harlem, and VoxLab. She was a semifinalist for a Clubbed Thumb Writers of Color Commission and a recipient of an Emerging Writer Residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. She is currently a first-year MFA student at Hunter College’s Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program.