Maya Bea Scott-Luib (they/she) is a mixed Filipino-Jewish-Brooklynite-multi-hyphenated actor.

They are expected to graduate with a BFA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Music Theatre from the Boston University School of Theatre in May 2025. Maya also attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, as a Drama Major.

As an actor, Maya Bea strives for vulnerability and depth in each and every character they take on. They have a particular knack for using this lens to approach absurd, heightened comedic characters. Maya approaches each role, regardless of genre, with this intentional lens of honest humanity. Maya is most inspired and drawn towards theatre and art that uses comedy as a weapon in combating tragedy. They are deeply interested in work that wields the vast and seemingly conflicting nature of life as it exists between comedy and tragedy.

As a (supposedly) shy, “speech-impedimented” 7 year old, Maya was put in an improv turned acting class, where their love for theatre took off. Flash forward, with the rigorous acting training at LaGuardia High School, Maya returned back to what first brought them into theater: improv, and by senior year of high school, they became the president of LaGuardia High School’s improv club!

Maya Bea has since maintained their adoration for improv and comedy so far as taking a whole fall semester off from BU to study improv and sketch at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade back in NYC! They then went on to study at the Accademia dell’Arte (ADA), a Physical Theatre program in Italy. Their time at the ADA further deepened their devotion for comedy and theatre, through being trained in clowning and Commedia dell’Arte! They’ve now returned to BU and to “Spontaneous Combustion”, the BU School of Theatre’s improv troupe, which they are a four-year member of!

When Maya Bea’s alone, and/or not typing away at their computer, writing in third person on a squarespace website, you can find them in their room writing and singing songs on their guitar. If you can’t find them in their room, do not fret, they’re probably just biking to a Target to roam its aisles to decompress. That is self care at its finest. God, I love Target.