Maya Brattkus
ACTOR/ANNA
Maya Brattkus started acting in 8th grade when her theatre teacher, Tim Wright, cast her as Haydee Sanabria in With Their Eyes. Since then she has played many diverse roles such as Kay Banks in Father of the Bride, Ismene in Antigone, Annelle Dupuee DeSoto in Steel Magnolias, Little Jesus Girl in The Pillowman and the Ash Girl in The Ash Girl. She has worked with James Franco in the collaborative theatre piece Paradise at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and she has acted in several student films.
Maya is pursuing her BFA in Acting at CalArts and has written and acted in to two plays in the New Works Festival. She was named a California Scholar of the Arts and has studied Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford. Currently Maya can be seen on stage at Theatricum Botanicum in The Crucible and The Chalk Garden. Wild Prairie Rose is Maya’s first feature film.
