Maggie Cino is a director and playwright living in Brooklyn, NY.
Her environmentally staged production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters won two 2017 Innovative Theater Awards and was nominated for two more, including Outstanding Revival of a Play. Time Out NY gave the production three stars and lauded her for “bringing the audience into this world of the idle rich. The cast's performances mine the often-overlooked comedy inherent in Chekhov, evoking an Arrested Development circa pre-revolutionary Russia.” She recently directed and devised Lost Adult: Answers to Any Name (From the McSweeney’s Internet Tendency essays of author Dan Kennedy) at the Brick Theater, where she also directed the world premier of Bonedive Scrounger.
Plays include: Warm Enough for Swimming, a four character dramatic comedy about death, coffee and the financial crisis (FringeNYC Encore Series, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist); Decompression, a nine character farce about Bushwick, Burning Man and the randomness of fortune (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Playwrighting, Chain Theater Minor Variations Series); and Ascending Bodily, a one character short surrealistic romance featuring teeny tiny llamas and eleven handbags (Kraine Theater, Galapagos). Her plays were published by Indie Theater Now and excerpts appear in the Smith & Krause Best Men’s and Best Women’s Monologue series. She is currently working on an apocalyptic drama about infertility and frakking. A nominee for the Doric Wilson Independent Playwriting Award, The Villager called her “A writer of extraordinary versatility and imagination” and Time Out NY says “Cino has a gift.”
As an actress and co-creating ensemble member she has appeared throughout New York City at venues including: Ohio Theater, Incubator Arts Project, and the Public Theater. She recently appeared in Jeff Tabnick's The Intimacy Effect at Vital Joint and Matthew Freeman's In the Great Expanse of Space at the Brick Theater. Professional voice over credits include narration for educational sex ed videos and voices for Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime.
A former Senior Producer for the Peabody and MACEI award-winning organization, The Moth, she directed storytelling shows nationally and internationally at venues including BAM, Lincoln Center, and the mainstage of the Sydney Opera House. The hundreds of stories she developed and directed are featured on the Moth Radio Hour and in their New York Times bestselling books.
She is a Brick Theater Master Mason and an Indie Theater Person of the Year.
Her environmentally staged production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters won two 2017 Innovative Theater Awards and was nominated for two more, including Outstanding Revival of a Play. Time Out NY gave the production three stars and lauded her for “bringing the audience into this world of the idle rich. The cast's performances mine the often-overlooked comedy inherent in Chekhov, evoking an Arrested Development circa pre-revolutionary Russia.” She recently directed and devised Lost Adult: Answers to Any Name (From the McSweeney’s Internet Tendency essays of author Dan Kennedy) at the Brick Theater, where she also directed the world premier of Bonedive Scrounger.
Plays include: Warm Enough for Swimming, a four character dramatic comedy about death, coffee and the financial crisis (FringeNYC Encore Series, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist); Decompression, a nine character farce about Bushwick, Burning Man and the randomness of fortune (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Playwrighting, Chain Theater Minor Variations Series); and Ascending Bodily, a one character short surrealistic romance featuring teeny tiny llamas and eleven handbags (Kraine Theater, Galapagos). Her plays were published by Indie Theater Now and excerpts appear in the Smith & Krause Best Men’s and Best Women’s Monologue series. She is currently working on an apocalyptic drama about infertility and frakking. A nominee for the Doric Wilson Independent Playwriting Award, The Villager called her “A writer of extraordinary versatility and imagination” and Time Out NY says “Cino has a gift.”
As an actress and co-creating ensemble member she has appeared throughout New York City at venues including: Ohio Theater, Incubator Arts Project, and the Public Theater. She recently appeared in Jeff Tabnick's The Intimacy Effect at Vital Joint and Matthew Freeman's In the Great Expanse of Space at the Brick Theater. Professional voice over credits include narration for educational sex ed videos and voices for Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime.
A former Senior Producer for the Peabody and MACEI award-winning organization, The Moth, she directed storytelling shows nationally and internationally at venues including BAM, Lincoln Center, and the mainstage of the Sydney Opera House. The hundreds of stories she developed and directed are featured on the Moth Radio Hour and in their New York Times bestselling books.
She is a Brick Theater Master Mason and an Indie Theater Person of the Year.