Maggie Whittum
Director/Producer
Maggie Whittum is a filmmaker, theatre artist, disability advocate, public speaker and stroke survivor at age 33. She has directed and produced plays, musicals and improv comedy in the US and abroad. Previous theatre directing and producing credits include All in the Timing, The Zoo Story, Into the Woods and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She also assistant-directed under Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman and Peabody Award winner Emily Mann at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, where she was named the Charles Evans Fellow (2012).
In 2006 Whittum wrote, directed and produced Love the Radio Edit, an original one-act comedy, to a nearly sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has directed and produced work at many other Fringe festivals, including Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
Whittum won a True West award for her performance in the world-premiere immersive experience Theater of the Mind, co-created by David Byrne and produced by the Denver Center. She often acts with the ‘disability-affirmative’ Phamaly Theatre Company in Denver, CO, which exclusively casts disabled actors. Commercial acting credits include MapQuest, Samsung and Starz/Encore.
Maggie has presented her story of stroke, disability and identity at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Craig Hospital, among others. Maggie is a Disability Belongs (formerly RespectAbility) Entertainment Fellow, an alum of Lights! Camera! Access! and a member of FWD-DOC and The D-Word. Maggie is executive producing and co-writing a feature length documentary film ‘The Great Now What’, about stroke, disability and the healing power of art. Maggie is a graduate of Colorado College.
