General & Writing Resume
Acting Resume
Teaching Resume

I’ve had my knee reconstructed.  Ankles sprained.  Arches cut.  Bell rung.  Teeth knocked out.  Yet there have been many moments during my writing career where I’ve looked at my computer at five in the morning and said to myself, ‘College and pro hoops was a warm-up compared to this.’

Maureen Holohan is a former college and professional basketball player turned writer, filmmaker, and director.  A native of Troy, N.Y., Mo attended Northwestern University on a full basketball scholarship. At NU, she earned All-Big Ten and honorable-mention All-American honors. In the classroom, she was all Academic Big-Ten and a winner of the prestigious Randolph Hearst Journalism Award for feature writing.

After graduating, Maureen played pro ball briefly in Greece, Budapest and Israel. When torn arches hindered her career, she began to focus on writing. Unable to find any literature about girls with a passion for sports, she wrote and self-published seven books in The Broadway Ballplayers series.  In less than three years, after visiting over 150 cities and 500 schools, Maureen sold over 100,000 copies of her books. 

In December 2000, Simon & Schuster bought the rights to the Ballplayers. Three years later, Maureen moved to New York City as an English teacher at a private school. While completing her master's in creative writing and coaching JV boys, she continued to play pick-up hoops in Manhattan. One of her favorite players, actor Tom Cavanagh (Ed), heard about Maureen's script about a female basketball junkie who won't let go of her dream. Cavanagh agreed to direct a short version of her story called $ GAME, and during the summer of 2007, a cast and crew of mostly gym rats teamed up to complete the short film, which included the talent of Richard Kind, Michael Ian Black, Judy Greer & Vic Hawks.

Over the years, Maureen has contributed stories to USA Today, The Albany-Times Union, Elle Magazine, Women's Health and more. She currently lives in Manhattan where she continues to work on her film editing skills and storytelling, while she runs her own non-profit basketball and fitness company, Mo' Motion, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Middle-Eastern Mutt

I’ve never been one to bond with animals, until I surprised myself one day over ten years ago, when I was playing professional basketball in Israel. I was living in a modest second-floor apartment, a dingy, beige brick structure, one of many simple, commune-style units that sat on a hill above a farm in Kibbutz Yifat.