Maisha Azadi

I am an Actor and Educator committed to create socially relevant and authentic representations of diverse communities.

As an actor and writer Ms. Azadi has had the pleasure of working on stages across New York from the Irish Classical Theatre Company, Alleyway Theater and Ujima Theater in Buffalo to New Worlds Theater, Theater for the New City, The Samuel French Play Festival, The National Black Theater and HarlemStage in New York City.
She has written and directed three stage plays, Life Unscripted, Missing:LOVE, and Broken Wings and Boulevard Dreams as well as having directed for both the Collective Unconscious’ 24 Hour Play Festival and the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Playwrights Collective Festival of New Works: Beyond Brecht.

Her self-published book of poetry entitled AzadiSong earned her recognition and award by the African American Writers Association of Western New York and she was awarded the Honoree of the Year Award from the S.D.A.C.C., (Student Digital Art and Cinema Committee) of New York for her web-series Life Unscripted, for which she was the Creator, Writer and Executive Producer. The series was an official selection of The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, and the 12th Annual Urban-Media Makers Festival where it received the Youth Film Top Ten Audience Award.Maisha has penned a number of shorts, including Our Love, A Dollar till Sunday, Zyquill and Kitty which is currently in pre-production.
She is the Founder and Creative Director of Urban Actors Academy, an actors cooperative program which trains talented young people to responsibly portray and creatively produce mobile content for and about their peers in the communities in which they live.

Maisha is a proud alumnus of Morgan State University and Metropolitan College of New York holding a B.A in Communications, with a concentration in Television Production/Theatre and an M.B.A. with a specialization in Media Management.

She is a member of both SAGAFTRA and AEA.