Biography
Maya Kate Frueh (pronounced “free”) is a New York based actor, martial artist & musician born in Sacramento, California and raised in Erie, Colorado. She has been practicing ITF Taekwondo for almost 10 years with a specialty in sword, and received her 3rd degree black belt in December of 2018. She started acting after her first trip to New York in 2015, where she performed in the Chorus of Parade at the David Geffen Hall. Since then, she has gotten the opportunity to perform and take classes across the US and the UK, and in 2018 she joined the Honors Performance Series Young Adult Honor Choir in a concert at Carnegie Hall.
After Graduating High School in 2017, she moved to Cardiff, Wales where she spent a year studying Music and English Literature, with a focus in Cello performance. It was there, in Cardiff Bay, that she took her first Acting for Camera class and fell in love with TV and Film acting.
After leaving the school in June of 2018, she decided to pursue acting full time, and took a gap year from her education to focus on taking classes and applying for theater schools in New York. She spent two months teaching music in Nairobi, Kenya, and worked as a guitarist and summer camp counselor for Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp.
In October of 2019, she moved to New York City to study acting at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where she graduated in June of 2021.
To watch her journey unfold, follow @mayakatefrueh across all social media platforms.