Maya Carter

(they/them/theirs/Maya)

Maya is a multi-hyphenate maker/performer,  teaching artist + cultivator of joy— living and working on the land of the Lenni Lenape and Canarsie People. Maya strives to decolonize access to artistic practice and prioritize ease + creative liberation in all things. Maya also facilitates the development of new plays and devised work in various capacities, including: Direction, Dramaturgy, Choreography, and Writing. Much of Maya’s generative work is an examination of the queer utopian ideal as it relates to the bodies + hearts of Black queer folk who grew up/out of/through trauma in Faith Communities. An excerpt of their play, How We’ll Get Over was commissioned for the Poetic Theater Productions annual festival in early March of 2020. Recent performance projects include: Silos with Elevate Theater Company, Rehearsing Justice at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Incomplete Collection with Linked Dance Theater, and We Are Only Dead If We Are Forgotten with Long Wharf Theatre + Rebirth Arts Collective.