Maya Ortega is a writer from Colorado.
Her scripts feature women navigating liminality, in the spheres of work, spirituality, womanhood, and society.
About
She received an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Dramatic Writing. Her scripts have won awards with Screenwriting Goldmine, Hollywood Screenplay Competition, finalist for the Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, selected for the SeriesFest Pitch-a-Thon, and a prose finalist for PERIPLUS finalist.
She’s home-schooled kindergartners, run a satirical local news site, put on a drive-through art show, and worked at a Russian-Turkish bathhouse.
Projects
Tip
A full-length play about a young woman who dies, and finds out in the afterlife that God’s new system for deciding where you go is based on her internet search history.
Gumshoe Gals
Half-hour comedy about two twenty-something best friends who become illegitimate private detectives, solving social mysteries—or trying to…
The Golden Age
One-hour drama about a female war correspondent who returns to Los Angeles to work as a low level writer in the Hollywood studio system in 1946, while dealing with PTSD, fledgling relationships, a dominating hierarchical corporation, and her desire to be an artist.
Curious & Curiouser
Half-hour live action kid’s series about four teenagers with disabilities discovering their personal power as they solve mysteries in a small Colorado mountain town.
Seinfeld Spec
I dug up this script a few years ago with the hopes of being inspired by how far I’ve come in my writing. Turns out, this is a great script. Written with the inspiration of cellphone technology inserted into Seinfeld, circa 2008.
Other
I paint on glass and mirrors, with a Jungian twist.
Contact
Write me an email to read full scripts, hire me, or for sauna tips.
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
-Terence McKenna