Maddox Pennington
Director
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Maddox Pennington (he/they) is a nonbinary actor, director, and playwright; a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. As the Education & Community Director of The Joy Who Lived Festival, he has taught workshops in writing, acting and storytelling for trans and queer performers. He has developed plays with the Native Voices Short Play Festivals and New Plays Retreat, the Moving Arts MADLab, the Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO, and in Off-Off Broadway NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival. Last year they directed Marilyn Monroe in the Desert with Premiere the Play Podcast. His award-winning work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival with majority nonbinary/trans casts has included Love Chicken, Annex, and A Third Space (part of the Trans Conversation Project). Maddox teaches first year and advanced college writing courses with themes from Native Studies, Queer Studies, Disability Studies, and Society and Technology.