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Maureen Towey
Biography
Maureen Towey is a director and writer working across artistic mediums. Towey has worked as a Creative Director for Grammy award-winning musicians such as Arcade Fire, Ray LaMontagne and Esperanza Spalding. She has directed music videos for Tune-Yards, Sharon Van Etten and Caroline Shaw. For The New York Times, Towey directed “Sensations of Sound” which won a Lumiere Award for Best VR Documentary of 2017. She also served as the lead director for The Daily 360, the only series in the world to create professional VR journalism on a daily basis. A highlight of her live performance work was directing Black Mountain Songs, which was conceived by Bryce Dessner (of The National) and starred the Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BAM in NYC, Barbican in London). Towey has been recognized as a Fulbright scholar (South Africa), a Princess Grace fellow, a TCG Leadership U grantee (Berkeley Rep), and as a PBS/AOL MAKER.
Maureen Towey can be reached at [email protected]