Television producer and screenwriter Maya Perez is currently developing a pilot with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV and an independent sci-fi TV series with Kat Candler, Aaron Marshall, and producers Toby Halbrooks and Jacob Jaffke. She was a co-producer on a romantic drama series starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff and produced by Ava DuVernay for Starz, an executive story editor on Showtime’s American Rust S2, and an executive producer on EMMY Award-winning Austin Film Festival’s On Story on PBS for eleven seasons. Her feature screenplays have been optioned for production and recognized by fellowships from SFFILM/Westridge, Sundance Institute, and NY Stage & Film. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, Joyland, and more. Maya received her BA from Vassar College and her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is now Screenwriting Area Head and an Assistant Professor of Practice.
