Maeve Press was born and raised in New York. She starred in the 2025 pilot for the new Disney+ show HOLES, an all-female reboot of the Disney film from 2003. She can be seen as a series regular playing the role of “Genevieve” on the Freeform/HULU show Everything’s Gonna Be Okay. Rolling Stone described her performance as some of, “…The best and most natural kid performances in recent TV memory.”

As a comedian, Maeve has performed at numerous festivals including San Francisco SketchFest headlining with Janeane Garofalo and was the youngest stand-up ever to perform at Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival, NJ’s Hoboken Comedy Festival and was named a “Best of Fest” at the Burbank Comedy Festival. Maeve began her career in NYC theater making her Off-Broadway debut at the iconic Public Theatre in the critically acclaimed play Before Your Very Eyes. Maeve also starred in the award-winning indie film Theresa Is a Mother and as “Becky” in the podcast Big Envelopes with Abbi Jacobson. As a writer, Maeve was a contributing writer on Everything’s Gonna be Okay and she co-wrote and starred in the Just For Laughs Montréal award-winning short Too Many Buddhas with Maria Bamford. Her solo show FAILURE CONFETTI had its UK premiere at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and it’s Dublin Premiere at the Dublin Fringe in 2026.