Maude Michaud is an award-winning writer-director from Montreal (Canada) who specializes in genre entertainment. Her films focus on the "horror of normality", treading the fine line between the familiar and the uncanny while tackling raw universal themes.

Her body of work includes over a dozen critically acclaimed short films which have toured the international festival circuit, as well as a documentary web series about women horror filmmakers, which served as a basis for her Master’s thesis. Her debut feature film Dys- World Premiered in July 2014 at the Fantasia International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature. She's currently in pre-production on her second feature film, Requiem for a Sad Girl which will be filming in late 2025.

An avid cinephile since her childhood, she has been nurturing a passion for storytelling and aims to craft stories that challenge genre boundaries and audience expectations. She strives to create compelling entertainment that will take audiences on a journey out of their comfort zone while getting them to experience different perspectives.

In addition to filmmaking, she also loves to explore the storytelling potential of different mediums, including photography and writing. In 2012, she obtained her M.A. in Media Studies from Concordia University, but she remains active in academic circles. Her thesis was one of the first academic work to focus on women horror filmmakers and how they inject feminism in the horror genre. Most of her published work as a writer is non-fiction/academic, but she is currently returning to her initial passion by trying her hand at fiction.

Maude Michaud is repped by Omada in Montréal. 

She is also a member of ARRQ and Film Fatales.