An Israeli Designer for Performance, Maureen has also lived in England, Australia, South-Africa and Italy and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. After training at the University of the Arts in London, she returned to Israel and expanded her interests in devised performance, movement and object theatre. She was recognized for her design contribution to the production of "The House by the Lake", conceptualized and directed by award winning puppeteer Yael Rasooly, at the Festival for Alternative Theatre (currently touring Europe and North America), and went on to receive the Golden Hedgehog Award for her work on the physical theatre piece "The Boat is Sinking" directed and choreographed by Daniela Michaeli.
Having accepted a scholarship from the University of Connecticut Design Tech program, Maureen continued to design for performance in theatre, opera, and musicals.
To date her work has been presented in the UK, North America, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy and Israel, and has been reviewed in several notable papers including The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out, The Huffington Post and Theatre World Publication.
Maureen's dramaturgical process behind the scenic design of "Intimate Apparel" for the Connecticut Rep. has been reviewed and published in "A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage" (Routledge Publishing), and her costume designs for Chekhov's "Three Sisters" directed by Mark Barford can be seen in "Acting Chekhov in Translation" (Peter Lang Publishing).
In 2017 Maureen became a NYFA IAP fellow and was invited to collaborate with Writer Meg Kaizu to present a visual response to Ms. Kaizu's poems at the Lincoln Center Public Library in NYC. Her work has also been exhibited at the United States Institute for Technology (USITT), both locally and in Washington D.C. garnering the National Partners-American Theatre award, The Stage Craft Institute Las Vegas award for excellence in Design technology, and the Zelma H. Weisfeld award for Costume Design and Technology.
In 2016 and 2018 she was invited to join the US exhibitors of "Costume at the Turn of the Century" at the Bakhrushin Museum in Moscow, which acquired some of her artwork, and which later traveled to Taiwan, China and Poland. Maureen, together with her production team won Opera America's L. Tobin Director-Designer Award 2020-21 , and designs for "Orfeo ed Euridice" were on exhibition in May 2022 at Opera America's conference in Minneapolis and later in 2023 at Opera America headquarters in NYC.
Since August 2023 Maureen had been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Connecticut State University's Theatre Dept. facilitating student learning in Technical Theatre, Scenic Design, Scenic Art and Crafts and Allied Arts in 3D for stage. She still continues her student centric work as a Teaching Artist for The Roundabout Theatre Company using theatre to support students' social and emotional learning throughout NYC boroughs and deepen connection to local communities. On site she has teamed up with fellow Teaching Artists to create show resources for select Roundabout shows and facilitated community conversations that strive to deepen audiences' experience with the paly and each other.