Maiken Wiese is an actress and playwright from the Pacific Northwest who has re-planted herself in Brooklyn. Her writing has been performed at the Shelter, Sticky!, Gotham Comedy Club and Manhattan Theater Source. Maiken was a Threshold Playwright Fellow through The Shelter, where she developed THE OTHER KIDS RAN AWAY, her first full length play. Her short play, IN THE NINTH MONTH won the audience pick and was featured in the Encores week for the Estrogenius Festival 2011 and she was commissioned to write her short play, KLINGON for the ten year anniversary of The Shelter. She is currently in development of a new play about sourdough and grief. Maiken received her BA in Drama from the University of Washington. She has acted at The Shelter, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Flea and Seattle Children’s Theater. Her acting film credits include “The Widowers” and “Awake.”