Maddox Pennington (he/they) is a nonbinary theater artist, director, and educator; a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. A co-producer of LA’s Joy Who Lived, a Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Theater and Comedy Festival, he has most recently performed in Native Voices Antíkoni by Beth Piatote. His work has also been developed in the Native Voices Short Play Festival and Playwrights Retreats, 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival, the Theater Viscera Podcast, NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival, the Moving Arts MADLab, and the inaugural Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO. His award-winning work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival with majority nonbinary/trans casts has included Love Chicken, Annex, and A Third Space, which was part of the Trans Conversation Project in 2024. Maddox has taught creative and college writing at Columbia University, American University, and the University of Southern California, where they are currently an Assistant Professor. His next projects include teaching in the Center Theater Group’s Hamlet Observership Program and an upcoming LACMA-Native Voices collaborative commission to open the new David Geffen wing. You can find them online @MKPinLA and MaddoxKPennington.com.