About me

Maggie Tavares is a queer actor and emerging director based in Toronto. She is specifically interested in feminist theatre and film that aims to challenge systemic norms and offer catharsis and whimsy to minority groups through a surrealist, absurdist lens. Maggie draws inspiration from the likes of David Lynch, Jean Genet, Jess Dobkin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Abe Koogler. She has also studied the works of Strindberg, Chekhov, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett in fervorous depth… she spends a lot of time at the library. As a child, Maggie thought that she would grow up to become a mad scientist or an abstract painter. She has a longhair tuxedo cat called Miffy (short for Mistoffelees) and her favourite play is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee.

Maggie is a founding member of Claw Marks Theatre, a gen-z feminist indie theatre collective in Toronto. Learn more at clawmarkstheatre.com

Directing credits include:
Four Boobs on a Rooftop by Maggie Tavares (2025, Claw Marks Theatre), Two Left Feet by Shreya Jha/Nicholas Duarte (2024, Thaumatrope Theatre). For the UofT Hart House Drama Festival: Under a Scorpion Sky by Maggie Tavares (2022), God Save the Queen by Maggie Tavares (2023), bluelight by Anya Reynolds-Swannie (2024). Writer/Director of Four Boobs on a Rooftop (TDS Beck Festival 2024), Director/Choreographer of Oklahoma! (2022 RHCPA Youth Intensives).
Maggie’s work as both a director and playwright at the UofT Drama Festival has earned her the Audience Choice award for Under a Scorpion Sky, the Robert Gill Award for Best Direction, the President’s Award for Best Production, and the I.A.T.S.E. Award for Technical Achievement for God Save the Queen, as well as the Achievement in Worldbuilding Award for bluelight.

As an actor, Maggie recently performed as Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera for her Toronto professional debut with Unbridled Theatre Collective dir. Anita La Selva. Maggie made her Fringe debut this past summer as Jane (pictured above) in Iris (says goodbye) at the Toronto Fringe festival!

An enjoyer of classical work, Maggie has performed in Theatre Erindale’s productions of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar dir. Andrea Runge, and Marlowe’s Edward II as Roger Mortimer dir. Melee Hutton.

During high school and her first years of university, Maggie performed with Mainstage Theatre company, having the privilege of working with incredible directors such as Ryan Kelly, Michele Shuster, Darren Burkett, Alain Richer, and Danik McAfee; she attributes this time spent training and learning to her reverence and love for theatre.
Maggie has since returned to Mainstage as an Assistant Director and continues to grow as an artist and educator.