Telephone: (843) 953-5804
Fax: (843) 953-8210
Office: Room 209-B, Albert Simons Center for the Arts
Email: libkinm@admin.cofc.edu

Maida Libkin enjoys an extensive theatrical and musical career as pianist, conductor, director, vocal arranger and educator. Raised in a theatrical family, she has been involved in musical theatre since her teens. Among other Broadway credits, Maida was pianist, associate conductor, and vocal arranger for Jerry's Girls, starring Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams. She has traveled extensively, conducting Aladdin in Jordan and Peter Pan in the former Soviet Union.

Since moving to Charleston in 1991, Maida has directed and musical directed several area productions, including Company at the Footlight Players Theatre and the College of Charleston's productions of Working and Lucky Stiff. She is in her eighth year as artist-in-residence for the Theatre Department.

Maida and her husband, William Schlitt, are founders of The Company Company and proud parents of their ten-year-old daughter, Johanna. She costars in The Good Time Variety Hour, their flagship production at Piccolo Spoleto, at Christmas and, in the Spring of 2002, with the Charleston Symphony Pops Orchestra.