Maureen won (with the film's director, Martin Duffy) the year 2000 Best Feature Award at the Austin Heart of Screen Writing Festival for the film "Taliesin Jones" (Jonathan Pryce, Ian Bannon, Matthew Rhys, Griff Rhys Jones, John Paul McCleod) which she adapted from the Welsh novel by Rhidian Brook. The film also won, among others, the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, Best Screen Writing at the Santa Monica Film Festival and 2d place at the Berlin Film Festival's Kinderfest.

Maureen has worked as a script doctor and a script analyst. She served as a line producer for the NY segment of the German television feature "Francis," as well as producer and director of a number of short films and a music video. Maureen started writing in order to direct her own work, and she has directed several short films, a music video, and a trailer. Her short films are "Flowering", "Past Life" and "Valentine's Day." She has also honed her skills in Directing workshops with Judith Weston, Seth Barish and Adrienne Weiss.

Maureen has a number of feature screenplays under her belt, including "Toxin" (with director Angelika Moenning) and horror script "Chrysalis." She worked with Snake River in Los Angeles to develop a miniseries based on the life of Ernest Hemingway, and she is a co-writer on the historical script "The Experiment" (with Joe Fischer) for Riverchild Films in London. Her original screenplay, "Beard's Creek," was a Finalist in both the IFP and Blue Cat screenwriting competitions, and a participant in the 2005 IFP No Borders International Co-Production section.

Maureen found her way into the business by way of acting, which she studied with Meisner based teacher Robert X. Modica, and with The Barrow Group in New York. Maureen also studied Directing at The Barrow Group. She attended Fordham University at Lincoln Center and earned a BA in Literature with an emphasis on Creative Writing. Her minor was in Theater.

Maureen was the recipient of a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Screenwriting Grant. She has also worked with DnA, a workshop group which seeks to explore and strengthen the relationships between directors and actors. Through Dna, she took Directing workshops with Judith Weston. For the last several years, Maureen has been a partner in Cannon Film Productions, developing projects for Irish Production. She is working on the non-fiction book "Tell Them Daddy's Not a Murderer," which tells the inside story behind the scandalous 'McBrearty Affair' in Ireland. She is also developing a feature script based on the same events.

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