Maya is a Birmingham born actress and the creator, writer and one of the executive producers of DI Ray.

This is her first original television series. Having been part of Stage 2 in Birmingham and National Youth theatre she then went on to train at LAMDA. After several years of acting Maya decided to pursue screenwriting. She was part of the series writers room for the TV adaptation of Adam Kay's bestseller This Is Going To Hurt for Sister Pictures/BBC. She was script consultant on The Trouble with Maggie Cole for Genial/ITV and also part of the writing team developing and storylining the second series of Ackley Bridge for The Forge/C4 as well as writing an episode.

Maya has written two episodes of Eastenders, an episode of Mount Pleasant and a 5-minute monologue for the second series of The Break for BBC iPlayer. She was also part of the writing team for the last series of The Kumars produced by Hat Trick for Sky 1.

Maya's debut play SKET premiered at the Park Theatre in April 2016. She was named on the BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017.