Maggie Kiley

American filmmaker and actress Maggie Kiley earned a BFA in Theater from New York University. After graduating she was invited to join the ensemble of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City, and has acted on stage and screen. She was one of eight women chosen for the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, and through that program she made the short Some Boys Don't Leave, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Eloise Mumford. That short brought her the Student Visionary Award from the Tribeca Film Festival and the Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker from Palm Springs International Shortfest. Her debut feature, Brightest Star, had its premiere at the Austin Film Festival and came out in early 2014 through Warner Brothers and Gravitas. She wrote and directed a second feature, Dial a Prayer, with Brittany Snow, Glenne Headly and William H Macy, which Vertical Entertainment acquired for a Spring 2015 release.