Playwright
Maggie is an MFA Playwriting candidate at Boston University, and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the local playwright group Writers at Play.
Scripts and excerpts available for download on the New Play Exchange.
How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos
A throne of red Solo cups, a pile of teeth, the ghost of Pete Seeger, and a little something for dinner. It’s illegal to be a billionaire. Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information on the federal case against him. But there’s something off about journalist Cherry Beaumont, a crowd is forming outside, and the onstage Fact Checker has a few important clarifications to make. The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy.
This dark satire was workshopped with Moonbox Productions in June 2024, produced at Boston Playwrights’ Theater in November 2024, and will open the 2025 Summer Season at Great Barrington Public Theater.
Photos: Benjamin Rose Photography
Like Flies: A Rage Play
When a mysterious new midwife comes to town, a group of women think she might have solutions for more than just childbirth. She might also have something to solve an epidemic of cruel men. Like Flies is a witchy thriller with movement, sound, murder, secrets, and an ensemble of women claiming the freedom they are due.
Inspired by the true events of the Angel Makers of Nagyrév.
Like Flies had a developmental reading in the Boston University School of Theatre Fall Fringe Festival 2023 and is a 2024 Clauder Competition Finalist.
Photo: Katie Nelson
Idawalley
Inspired by the life of female lighthouse keeper Idawalley Lewis of Newport, Rhode Island, this play follows Ida and her family in their life on Lime Rock, maintaining the lighthouse, facing ghosts from their past, and what the changing times mean for their future.
Idawalley had a professional reading in Fresh Ink’s Ink Spot Series in 2018 and a student workshop production at Boston College in January 2023.
IDK [What This Is]
A nightly meeting
a crawl space
a pig with no name
rusty hedge trimmers
and a landline in the kitchen.
Six young people tell the story of their shared experience at a secluded house where they set out on a social experiment. Maybe they’ll make the world a better place. Maybe they’ll find themselves along the way. Maybe if they tell the story right, they won’t have to tell it again.
Written with virtual and socially distant theatre in mind, IDK was produced virtually at Boston College in February 2021.
THE PLUME
Hollow and Percy Newbury’s mother has kidnapped them to celebrate The Plume, the annual arrival of a traveling mile-long noxious cloud of consolidated pollutants. The Newbury’s hermetically sealed Boston brownstone is the safest place on Earth to wait out the deadly man-made weather system and celebrate the morbid holiday traditions around it. This year, The Plume is no longer a threat, but if Virginia Newbury knew that, she would undoubtedly interfere with her children's lives outside. Hollow and Percy agree to keep the truth from their sheltered mother, but the ghosts in their home really think it's time the members of this family started being honest with each other.
The Plume had a staged reading at The Rockwell in Somerville, MA in December 2024, and is the first runner-up for the Earth Matters on Stage Festival 2025-2026.
The Paint Cycle
Inspired by Maggie’s time as a professional scenic artist, The Paint Cycle is a growing series of plays centering painters in the daily grind of technical theater, and the ways the art imitates life. These plays feature live theatrical set painting on stage.
The Yellow Paint
Sydney is returning to work as a professional scenic artist after giving birth to her first child and battling with postpartum depressive disorder. She’s painting the set for an adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. When Sydney reveals to lead actress Alexandra the racist nature of Gilman’s other essays, she throws the fate of the production into the air. Gilman’s words ring in their ears, as Sydney struggles to complete the project through anxiety attacks, and Alexandra grapples with the ethics of celebrating a problematic writer.
Paint Call
Paint charge Emily is training two new painters - her best friend Jess and college student Liv - on the job. They have five days to paint the set for a mysterious play about a cult with a foreboding sculpture at the center. The work, the play, and the anti-capitalist protests outside the theater invade each of their consciousness as they fall in and out of the rhythm of routine, collaboration, and the interpersonal politics of art making,
The Mrs.
The wealthy and mysterious M arrives at her spacious lake house with her young assistant Joseline in tow, and two offstage "watchers" staying in the guest house. Neither knows how long they will be there, and as Joseline vies for answers a power-play unfolds. It becomes less and less clear whether the two women are friends or foes, how, when, or if they will ever leave the house, and who will have the final say.
The Newton Theatre Company produced The Mrs. via Zoom in August 2020.