Maya Contreras

Maya has done everything in the arts from writing, performance to management.

As an Artist Manager, Maya has worked with distinguished stage and film composers including, Marvin Hamlisch who received an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe and Pulitzer Prize, as well as Bill Conti, an Oscar and three-time Emmy winner and one of Hollywood’s most sought-after composers and conductors.

In addition to stage and film arts, Maya’s management experience encompasses classical music. She has been part of the management teams for legendary pianist and 2007 Kennedy Center Honoree Leon Fleisher, Grammy award winning conductor Sir Simon Rattle, and Chief Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel.

As a musician, Maya has worked with producer Dallas Austin, Professor Griff, composed the music for the Jomadi/Crossroads production of Six from the Rainbow, and was a student of Grammy Award winning drummer Woody Williams.

As a professional writer Maya has covered everything from New York Nightlife to the current climate of the music industry. Her interview credits include: Legendary MCs- KRS-ONE and Pharoahe Monch, Editor-in-Chief of Complex, Noah Callahan-Bever, Editor-in-Chief of the Austin Chronically and Founder of SXSW Louis Black, playwright and actor Paul Stoval-Oakley (Clear, Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci), actor Amina Robinson (Precious, Mamma Mia), Award Winning Director and Producer Jeremy Simmons (Trans-Generation, Eyes of Tammy Faye, One Punk Under God, and The Last Beekeeper) and legendary New York Graffiti crew The Tats Cru.

Her play, Nervous Breakdown: The Musical, is in pre-production.

Her novel “The Him Book: One Woman’s Almost Religious Search to Find the One” and novella “Eight Weeks of Bruce” are both currently on sale at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and worldwide.

Maya is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the bi-annual print magazine THE DDD.

Maya received a BFA from Florida State University in Theatre and Religion.