Maude Michaud
Maude Michaud is a Canadian screenwriter, filmmaker and actress. She is best known for her first feature-length film Dys-, which she wrote, directed, produced and edited.
Early life
Maude Michaud is from Greenfield Park, Quebec. She began drama lessons when she was nine years old. By the age of sixteen, she made her first short film, Finding Hope, which was chosen for the official selection in Toronto's International Teen Movie Festival. By seventeen, her second short film, Spirits, which was her first work in the horror genre, was also screened at this festival.Education
Michaud did all of her post-collegiate studies at Montreal's Concordia University, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in communication studies and film production with a minor in project management. She has since graduated with a master's degree in media studies.Her master's thesis titled "Horror Grrrls: Resistance and Agency within the Interpretive Community of Women Horror Filmmakers" focuses primarily on women in the horror genre. It consisted of a written element as well as a documentary web series titled Bloody Breasts, which examined women's role in the horror film industry and tackled certain prepossessed notions about women's relation to this genre.