As a writer/director, Maisha has experience in development of new media, stage and short form creative content. She is the playwright of the full-length play, Nina and Troyboy, initially slated to premiere at the 2020 Hollywood Fringe Festival. While the original staging was postponed, the play went on to have virtual readings with Inkwell Theater and the Greater Film Fest’s 30 at 30 in Los Angeles. In 2021, Maisha adapted the play to her short film Home Soon, garnering over 12 official film festival selections; winning a Best Actress and Best Emancipatory award and Best Female Director and Outstanding Performance nominations. In 2023, the film was acquired for distribution through the ASPIRE television network bringing the short film in over 30 million viewing homes this fall.

As a screenwriter, she has penned and produced a number of short films and web-series which have been official selections at The Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival, The Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, The San Francisco Black Film Festival, Ocktober Film Festival, Urban Media Makers Film Festival, The London International Filmmakers Festival, The BHERC 25th Annual African-American Film Marketplace in Los Angeles and more.

Maisha has been the recipient of the Honoree of the Year Award from the Student Digital Art and Cinema Committee of New York City for her original work Life Unscripted. The teen web-series, an official selection at multiple film festivals, earned Top Ten Youth Film Audience Award at the 12th Annual Urban-Media Makers Festival in Atlanta, Ga. Her television pilot, In Due Time was and official selection of the Inaugural Television Writers Workshop hosted by NAMIC, (National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications.)

As an playwright and poet, her first published book of poetry entitled FreedomSong earned her recognition and award by the African American Writers Association of Western New York. She has directed her stage plays, Life Unscripted, and Broken Wings and Boulevard Dreams through Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning as well as having directed for both the Collective Unconscious’ 24 Hour Play Festival and the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Playwrights Collective Festival of New Works: Beyond Brecht. 

In 2019, Maisha launched her independent media production vehicle, Sparrow and Finch Films.