Maddy’s novel about an entitled teen with no phone, Edna In The Desert, is on school reading lists in North America. Her screenplays are in festival competition: Ava and The American, Finalist, 2023 Rhode Island International Film Festival and Official Selection, 2024 Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Growing Up in Palm Springs, Official Selection, 2023 Adapted Story Showcase. Maddy’s short films, Cross Words and Mermaids of Brooklyn, were on The Independent Film Channel and at festivals nationwide.

Maddy’s writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Sun Runner, a magazine about California deserts. She was one of the writer/directors of ABC Bakery, a TV show in Taiwan that taught English through sketch comedy and musical numbers, nominated for the Golden Bell (Taiwanese Emmy) for Best Children’s Show.

Maddy’s short documentary about an installation at Burning Man, Randy Polumbo Creates The Grotto of Manifest Destiny, is about art, not porn, though there are sex toys in it. She’s directed plays at Soho Rep, The Ohio Theater, The American Jewish Theater, and Expanded Arts in New York City, and made joke video cards for Mogreet when that was a thing. She read plays for legendary, literary agent, Helen Merrill, and these days, when she’s not writing, she works in the art department of TV shows and films including Saturday Night Live, Katy Keene, High Fidelity, The Americans, The Leftovers, Elementary, and The Amazing Spiderman 2. She has an MFA in Theater from Brooklyn College and loves to travel, hike, go out to eat, and be in the desert.

News about Maddy is here.

Maddy’s Must-See Movie List is long, and here.