Maximillian Gill

Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2026

Full-length: Two air traffic controllers try to negotiate the demands of punishing hours in a high-pressure job with lives literally on the line every minute of their work days.

Full-length: Business is booming for four funeral singers as a mysterious ailment is killing people at an alarming rate.

10-20 minutes: A refugee desperate to find shelter in a new country meets a “corrector” who is able to help, but the cost of refuge may be too much to bear.

Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Short List Finalist, 2025
Playhouse on Park Playwrights on Park New Works Series, 2025
Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest Finalist, 2024

Full-length: Two Indian-American siblings set off on a cross-country road trip to see their ailing mother, but the journey is complicated when one shows signs of possession by a demon from Hindu legend.

10 minutes: A new arrival in a small town finds her quest to check out a copy of a Tolstoy novel thwarted when she discovers that the library has resorted to drastic means to raise funds.

10 minutes: Little Evelyn and Benjy embark on the most fraught adventure of their young lives as they try to gain access to adult content on their mother's streaming service.

Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2024
Premiere Stages at Kean University Play Festival Semi-Finalist, 2023
Normal Ave NAPSeries Semi-Finalist, 2023

Full-length: Three truckers from very different backgrounds struggle in a time of high gas prices and supply chain breakdowns.

Gloucester Stage Company Water's Rising reading festival, 2024
Live Arts Waterworks Long List Finalist, 2025
Utah Shakespeare Festival Semi-Finalist, 2025

Full-length: In a base on the Greenland ice cap, an astrophysicist leads a team searching for evidence of an extraterrestrial object, but her project is thrown into disarray upon the arrival of a glaciologist researching glacier melt and the tech bro who is financing the work. The scientific method conflicts with the human need to believe in something greater, and everyone has strong opinions on how to save the planet.

The Depot for New Play Readings, 2025
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2024
The Best Women's Stage Monologues, Smith and Kraus, 2024
Round the Bend Theatre reading, 2023

Full-length: Two couples on a getaway to a cabin in New England face the specters of the past and present after an Indian brother and sister receive an unexpected phone call.

Abingdon Theatre Company BIPOC Festival of Short Plays, 2025

45 minutes: An Indian-American student returns from his father's funeral to find the women he is renting a room from in the middle of relationship troubles.

Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist, 2023

Full-length: A mind-altering device may do more harm than good.

10 minutes: Emily has a special dating app that tells her more than anybody should know about a prospective match.

Full-length: A country singer faces her worst nightmare when the venue for her breakout performance becomes a heavy metal club overnight.

10 minutes: A routine citizenship test turns deeply intrusive.

15 minutes: Parker suddenly feels a depletion of empathy and visits a specialist for help.

10-minute monologue: Amy Singh just wants to sign country and western on stage, but it's not easy for an Indian-American in the deep south.

Produced as a short film featured at the Marina del Rey Film Festival 2022, the Tagore International Film Festival 2022 (multiple awards), the Tagore International Film Festival 2023 (Sun of the East award), the Indian International Short Film Festival 2023 (3rd Best Lockdown Short Film), the Silicon Beach Film Festival 2023, the Female Film Festival 2023 (Best Short Film audience award), the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival 2023, the South Asian International Film Festival Florida 2024, the WSXA Barcelona International Awards 2024, the Goa Short Film Festival 2024, and the Indian Panaroma International Film Festival 2025.

Short monologue: A young Indian-American woman tries to deal with her father's response to a changed world.

30-minute Zoom serial: Marion and Dennis find their plans for a divorce derailed by Covid as they end up stuck together during the worst of the pandemic in New York.

Full-length: In a future ravaged by climate change, some flee the burning equatorial regions for more hospitable climes while others decide that piracy is a viable career path. Kali, a pirate queen with a fierce reputation, leads her fleet on raids along the Hudson River in New York, but she faces a formidable challenge when one of her rivals arrives to oppose her primacy on the river.

The Best Men's Stage Monologues, Smith and Kraus, 2024

Full-length: An absurdist dark comedy that explores the lengths people will go to just to hold onto a piece of Manhattan real estate.

10 minutes: A young woman trapped with her brother-in-law in a city under siege tries to distract both of them from reality with tales from the Thousand and One Nights.

15 minutes: A vampire and a mortal in a long-term relationship discover that love between the living and the undead can be tough to manage.

10 minutes: An employee tells his boss to take the stick out of his you-know-what, but he is woefully unprepared for the consequences.

10 minutes: A bottle faces an existential crisis after being discarded by the side of the road.

Monologue (based on full-length The Bitter and the Sweet): A young woman reconciles with her mother and her South Asian heritage through her connection with a family recipe.

One-act: When a plague starts wiping out the population of New York City, three party people decide they’re going to dance until the end, but a visit from the Angel of Death spoils their plans.

Full-length: Fifteen years after Dana’s punk band dissolved, she puts together a reunion show to try for one last shot at fame, but a series of mishaps that could only befall a rock and roll band result in a disastrous set. When a former bandmate shows up, old rivalries flare up and force Dana to decide what music really means to her.

Full-length: A young Indian-American woman tries to cope with her family’s expectations while trying to find her own identity. A tale of uncomfortable family secrets and an immigrant’s struggles for assimilation suffused with a love of Indian cooking.

Full-length: A young scriptwriter is kidnapped by a commando team from a minor nation whose dictator she mocked in her movie. She and her captors are pursued by her boss and an intelligence agent on a rescue mission. Yet everyone soon realizes that geopolitical intrigue is nothing compared to the ruthlessness of the movie business.

45 minutes: A young Indian-American woman makes a meaningful change in her relationships with her family and her boyfriend with the inspiration of a totemic Hindu goddess.

30 minutes: In the days before the complete collapse of Syria into a brutal civil war, two families have gathered together for a walima (wedding reception). One is connected to the Assad regime, the other attempting to benefit from the connection. As the bride's mother frets over the disappearance of her son due to dissident activities, the web of fragile loyalties unravels into betrayals and a harbinger of the madness that will soon tear the country apart.

Full-length: One daughter is an orphaned demon, the other half-angel. Mom's a fallen angel, while dad's just a hapless mortal. But only when the demon daughter goes looking for her origin does this family get really dysfunctional. A riff on the Coriolanus story and a fable about trying to find out where you really belong. And yes, the title is a pun.

15 Minutes: A fallen angel walks into a bar run by a demon.

Produced as a short film featured at the New York Tri-State International Film Festival 2025, the Detroit Independent Film Festival 2025 (semi-finalist, best narrative short), the New York Indie Short Awards 2025 (semi-finalist, best short script), the Skiptown International Film Festival 2025 (outstanding performance in a short film), and the Toronto Feedback Female Film Festival 2025 (best direction).