Maia Seum
Performing Experience:
Queen Aggravain, Once Upon a Mattress: Youth Edition, Summit Playhouse, Summit, NJ, June 26-29, 2025
Summit High School Speech and Debate Team, Humorous Interpretation and Duo Interpretation, Summit, NJ, August 2024 - Present
Bosorov, Corpse Flower, Summit High School Director’s Showcase, Summit, NJ, May 1, 2025
Bringing Books to Life Through Song, CPC Weekday Nursery School & Kindergarten, Summit, NJ, March 2025
Cat in the Hat, Seussical Jr., Summit Playhouse, Summit, NJ, December 2024
Vivid Stage Summer Original Production, Vivid Stage, Summit, NJ, July 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Ensemble, Finding Nemo Jr., Pebbles Players, Summit, NJ, January 2024
Robertson Aye, Mary Poppins Jr., Summit Playhouse, Summit, NJ, December 2023
Narrator 1, Game of Tiaras, LCJSMS Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, December 2023
Death by Toaster & Ensemble, Beetlejuice Jr. Premier, Pixie Dust Players, Millburn, NJ, August 2023
Sailor, The Little Mermaid, LCJSMS Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, March 2023
Narrator & Ensemble, Beauty & the Beast Jr., Summit Playhouse, Summit, NJ, December 2022
Bel Canto, Chorus, LCJSMS Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, August 2022 - May 2024
Shared Chorus, LCJSMS Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, August 2022 - May 2024
Clarinet / French Horn, LCJSMS & Summit High School Band, Summit, NJ, August 2021 - Present
ISR Junior Chorus, International School on the Rhine, Neuss, Germany, August 2019 - June 2021
Ensemble, Student Written Plays, International School on the Rhine, Neuss Germany, Spring 2020, Winter 2020
Ensemble, Under the Sea, English Theater, Dusseldorf, Germany, July 2019
Crew Experience:
Assistant Costume Director, Prince of Egypt Jr. Premier, Pixie Dust Players, West Orange, NJ, May 2025
Props, The Prom, Summit High School, Summit, NJ, February 2025
Props, Peter Pan & Wendy, Summit High School, Summit, NJ, November 2024
Assistant Director, Guys and Dolls, LCJSMS Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, March 2024
Photography, A Christmas Carol, LCJSMS Middle School, Summit, NJ, December 2022
Props, Cinderella, LCJSMS Middle School, Summit, NJ, March 2022
Awards:
Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, The Prom, Paper Mill Rising Star Awards 2025, Paper Mill Playhouse
Outstanding Student Achievement in Assistant Direction for a Middle School Play or Musical, Mont Clair State University Theatre Night Awards Foxy Nominee, Maia Seum, Guys & Dolls, May 2025
Outstanding Production of a Middle School Musical, Guys & Dolls, Mont Clair State University Theatre Night Awards Foxy Award, May 2025
6th Place - Duo Interpretation, Hunterdon Central Winter Invitational, Speech & Debate, January 2025
5th Place - Duo Interpretation, Phillipsburgs Spooktacular, Speech and Debate, October 2024
Outstanding Production of a Middle School Play, Game of Tiaras, Mont Clair State University Theatre Night Awards Foxy Award, May 2024
Global Harmony Award of Excellence in the field of Music, 2023, Keys to Success
LCJSMS 8th Grade Band Award, June 2024
Training:
Voice, Heather Holcombe, Summit, NJ, October 2023 - Present
Guitar, Danny Roselle, Summit, NJ, January 2025 - Present
Piano, Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts, New Providence, NJ, January 2022 - September 2024
Dance Workshop, Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts, New Providence, NJ, April 2023
Acting & Dancing, Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts, New Providence, NJ, October 2021 - June 2022
Piano, Scherzo Music School, Summit, NJ, September 2021 - December 2021
Piano, Iva Jovanovic, Private & IMS Internationale Musikschule, Kaarst, Germany, August 2018 - June 2021
Piano, Musicbox Oxana, Studio ISR, Meerbusch/Neuss, Germany, August 2015 - June 2018
Ballet, Ballet for Girls, Boys & Adults by Claudia Peltzer, Neuss, Germany, August 2016 - June 2021
Ballet, Gemma’s Ballet, Meerbusch, Germany, August 2015 - June 2016
Ballet & Tap, Intrigue Dance & Performing Arts Center, Chicago, IL, August 2014 - June 2015
Special Skills:
Instruments: Piano, Ukelele, Guitar, Baritone Saxophone & French Horn
Languages: English, German & Beginning Spanish
Enjoys doing Impressions, Dancing, Enjoys being silly and making others laugh, Soccer, Art
Education:
Summit High School, Summit, NJ, September 2024 - Present
Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ, August 2021 - June 2024
Kindergarten - Grade 5, ISR International School on the Rhine, Neuss, Germany, August 2015 - June 2021
Pre-K, Chicago Park District, Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens, Chicago, IL, August 2014 - June 2015