Hello, I'm Makena S.
Makena Metz is a writer for the page, screen, and stage. She loves to write about misfits, nerds, weirdos, and outcasts through fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Chapman University. Makena is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Women in Animation, Maestra Music, the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists. Recently, Makena participated in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriting Intensive and the Paramount/MTV Entertainment Group First Time Composers Program. Her songs have been featured on the Emmy winning Disney+ show Hamster & Gretel. Makena’s television and feature work has made the Coverfly Red List and placed in several competitions. Her prose and poetry have been published with Wordgathering, PearTree Press, The Clockhouse Review, For Page and Screen, Havik, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Wishbone Words, Strange Horizons, and more. Her plays and musicals have been produced with The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Braid Theatre Company, Queens Theatre, Giant Wolf Theatre Company, the Navigators Theatre company, and more. Makena’s theatrical work has been published and produced with Musical Theater Today Magazine, Queen’s Theatre’s “Disability Forward” Anthology, Next Stage Press’s “WE:US Monologues for the Gender Minority” Anthology, and produced with The Lincoln Center’s ADA30 Celebration, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center Playwright’s Intensive, and many others. Makena is an alum of Sam Carner’s Musical Creators Institute Program and New Musical Inc’s CORE Curriculum for Musical Theatre Writing. Find her work on Coverfly, New Play Exchange, or Chillsubs and follow her @ makenametz on social media, and check out makenametz.com