maia mayor
For the past eight years, Maia has worked Get Lit as a writer, performer, and teacher. She has performed for thousands of youth nationwide. Her poems are viral sensations online, and her chapter in the award winning Get Lit Rising is the most requested for interviews and live performances. She has lectured at the ALAN Convention and was chosen as a panelist/performer in the latest NCTE conference where she spoke and performed for over 1,000 English teachers across the country. Maia has been featured on the TK Jakes Show, Huffington Post, TEDxYouth and more. In 2017 she performed in the production of Dante’s Inferno: A Modern Adaption co-directed and produced by Cynthia Ettinger and Academy Award winner Tim Robbins. Most recently Maia has worked with One Vote at a Time, a grassroots PAC that focuses on gun safety legislation and electing progressive candidates into office. Maia now hosts an original web series called Get Lit Globe. She is also featured in the upcoming 2020 film "Summertime", directed by Carlos López Estrada, who's first feature film "Blindspotting" (starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal) was nominated for the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, with Estrada nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. “Summertime” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and will be distributed by Good Deed Entertainment in the Spring of 2021.
“I’m an actor, and I’ve done a few small things in the past, and it was the first time I’ve ever been able to bring my love of poetry and my love of acting together for such a large project. That to me was really exciting. Just being a part of something so special in itself was rewarding for me.” — Who What Wear (Summertime Review)
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“I’m an actor, and I’ve done a few small things in the past, and it was the first time I’ve ever been able to bring my love of poetry and my love of acting together for such a large project. That to me was really exciting. Just being a part of something so special in itself was rewarding for me.”