Maggie Parto comes from a multinational family where the study of languages and culture is cherished. Growing up in Chicago, she fell in love with the performing arts after seeing Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love". Her extensive travels across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa have been instrumental in shaping and defining her expertise in the Performing Arts. Maggie eventually settled in Southern California where she studied Theater & Film at the University of California, Irvine and South Coast Repertory Theater. She also trained at the original house of Meisner and completed the program in Los Angeles. She has been part of many theater productions as well as short and Indy feature films. These days she is busy making movies. Speed Date Inn is the most recent short film production, and several other feature films are on the horizon.