AbOUT
Maddie Dai is a Kiwi cartoonist, illustrator and screenwriter living in London by way of Hong Kong, Vermont, and NYC. Her hobbies include writing down ideas in her notes app at inopportune moments and trying to join your social 5-a-side football screen. She has had nearly 90 cartoons published with The New Yorker Magazine since 2017.
In 2020, she began screenwriting, and has since been in a few writers rooms, including S2 of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH for HBO and S2 of Sister Pictures & Amazon’s THE POWER.
In 2023, she wrote and directed a short film, MINISTRY OF JINGLE (Piki Films), that debuted at Show Me Shorts Film Festival, and went onto screen around the road, including Palm Springs Film Festival, Flickerfest, and others.
Her debut feature as a writer, WE WERE DANGEROUS, was produced by Piki Films (Taika Waititi and Carthew Neal prod co, JOJO RABBIT), and directed by Josephine Stewart Te-Whiu. It premiered at SXSW 2024, where it won the Jury Prize for Filmmaking.
She is now freelance, and available for all sorts of opportunities. For illustration, cartooning and design commissions, get in touch using the form below. For writing and directing, contact her agent, Humphrey Elles-Hill, of Independent Talent Group (UK).
Please note: she will always join your social football kickaround, and welcomes all invitations in this vein. Use the form below.