Education: Maureen attended the University of Glasgow (MA Eng & Phil) and University of Strathclyde (Business Course).

Early career: Two years at the BBC in London and moonlighting as a dresser for the RSC led to many years in a prominent London theatrical agency where she worked first as an assistant and then as an agent dealing with high profile clients in film, television, theatre, radio, commercials and voice-overs.

Casting: One of her earliest jobs in casting, while working for Casting Director Gail Stevens, was typing the Actors' contracts for Trainspotting. She also worked on three other Danny Boyle films: The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio, 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy and Millions; She has worked on numerous other films such as the multi-award winning Calendar Girls starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters; Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park starring Frances O'Connor and Jonny Lee Miller; and the break-out British comedy hit, Saving Grace, starring Brenda Blethyn and Tcheky Karyo.

She has been Casting Director on countless TV productions, such as Zadie Smith's White Teeth (three Bafta nominations; won Best Fiction Programme, Cologne Conference 2003); Great Expectations starring Ioan Gruffudd and Charlotte Rampling (won numerous awards and nominations in the Bafta, Emmy and Royal Television Society Awards); and Crime and Punishment, (won in three categories, Royal Television Society Awards); all directed by Julian Jarrold.

Maureen's recent Casting Director film credits include; The Flying Scotsman, starring Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, Laura Fraser and Billy Boyd; and Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring, starring Shirley Maclaine, Mischa Barton, Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell and Pete Postlethwaite. Other recent TV casting credits include Poirot starring David Suchet, Wild At Heart and Tom Brown's Schooldays which starred a very talented newcomer, Alex Pettyfer who immediately went on to co-star with Ewan McGregor in the feature film Stormbreaker. 

Maureen was UK Casting Director on a two-part TV thriller Burn Up for Kudos, Alchemy and the BBC, written by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty), starring Rupert Penry Jones (Spooks), Neve Campbell (Scream) and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing). Kudos Film and TV is currently the most prolific production company in the UK. Maureen continued her casting collaboration with Alchemy TV on Diamonds, a two-part TV mini-series for Sienna Films, Canada, starring James Purfoy and Derek Jacobi.

Recently Maureen completed UK casting on The Father of Australia, a drama documentary for Caledonia TV, Scotland and ABC Australia and is currently engaged in the UK casting of Combat Hospital, a 13 part UK-Canadian TV co-production between Sienna Films, Toronto, and Artists Studio, UK for networks Shaw (Canada) and ABC (US).

She is also working on several films in development for various independent film companies. They are Indian Summer, Producer Iain Brown, Writer-Director Brian Ward; Like Nothing Ever Happened, Producer Raffaella De Laurentiis, Wrtiter-Director Jeffrey Price; and a slate of films for Producer Peter Broughan (Rob Roy Films), Cryptid, Producer Bob Crowe (Angel Ent, Canada) and Monica Hilborn (Lexico Prods, Canada), Untitled Jason Priestley Project, Director Jason Priestley, Producers Bob Crowe and Monica Hilborn; Hollow Point, Director Richard Parry, Producer Elizabeth Morgan-Hemlock (Arturi Films, who produced the award-winning Mugabe and the White African); One-Arm Bandit, Director Brian Ward, Proudcer Elizabeth Morgan-Hemlock; Heaven Come Dawn, Writer-Director Oskar Laffont, Producer Jairo Sifuentes (who jointly won first prize at the first Chihuahua Film Festival); Diabolus - Legion of Blood, Writer-Director Simon Edwards, Producer Kate Arton; and 8 Lunatics, Writer-Director David Logan, Producer, George Arton.

As well as Casting Director, she is Associate Producer on four of these films in development: Hollow Point, Heaven Come Dawn, Diabolus-Legion of Blood and 8 Lunatics.

Writing/Art: Maureen won first prize for her short story 'Krakatoa, East of Java' in a UK national magazine competition and was a finalist both in Cosmopolitan New Journalists Competition and a Time Out fiction competition. She has also had journalistic travel and art pieces published in Cosmopolitan, the Rough Guide series and The Art Magazine. One of her short stories was published in a Collins collection of 'Scottish Short Stories'. She also completed over eighty film reviews for the listings magazine Footloose. Her own illustrations have been published in both hardback and paperback books and magazines. She has exhibited and sold her own line drawings. She has recently published an essay entitled “The Significance of Sir Oliver Mar-Text in As You Like It” on the Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection website.

She has several of her own film scripts in development and also has a novel-in-progress. 

Script Reading/Script Editing As a theatrical agent she read and reported on many film and TV scripts in an advisory capacity for actors. She completed the Advanced Script Readers Course at the London Script Factory which in recent years has been influential in setting the UK script readers' industry standard. She has been a script reader for Capitol Films and also for the Script Factory where she has written highly detailed constructive script reports for scriptwriters frequently to script editing level.

Organisations: Maureen is a member of Bafta, Bectu, the Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain and Ireland and the International Casting Directors Network. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Chelsea Arts Club.