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

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