Maizy Windham is a Director, Writer, Performer & multi-hyphenate artist, currently based in Cleveland, OH. Her primary creative interests involve combining athleticism and artistry, finding humor in unconventional characters, and exchanging perspectives to investigate complex curiosities and challenging questions.

Maizy is originally from the south, born in Chattanooga, TN, and raised in Greenville, SC where she grew up playing sports and running around in the sun with her two younger brothers. Maizy is a proud alumna of Greenville’s Fine Arts Center, SC’s first public arts high school, where she studied Theatre Performance and was a member of the Advanced Acting Ensemble & the Advanced Topics in Performance Cohort.

She is a recent graduate of Case Western Reserve University where she studied with the support of a full tuition theatre arts scholarship. In May 2024, she received Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degrees in Dance, English, & Theater with a concentration in film. While at CWRU, she received the Ann Barger Nemet Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing from the Department of English in her sophomore year. In her senior year, she was honored to receive both the Ron Wilson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance, Direction, or Dramatic Writing from the Department of Theater and the Outstanding Member Award from University Media Board, for her three years as Executive Director of Studio 300, CWRU’s student filmmaking collective.

Maizy is thrilled to return to the CWRU Department of Dance in August 2024 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Contemporary Dance with a focus on choreography and performance.

Whether it be a goofy short film, a play from Ancient Greece, or a poem about a dead rat, Maizy enjoys using intersecting mediums to explore human idiosyncrasies & continually seeks ways to collaborate with others to create wacky, unique art.