Maysaa Almumin is currently living and working as Assistant Professor in design in Qatar. She grew up in London where she was trained and practiced in architecture, after which she moved to Kuwait and then Qatar where she started acting and script writing filmmaking since 2011. She has had acting training with directors/ filmmakers/academics Scandar Copti and Daniel Suissa. She has been involved in film projects in Kuwait, Italy and Qatar including projects by the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition 2014, Doha Film Institute and Northwestern University Qatar.  The architecturally themed film Muneera where Maysaa plays the lead role was screened at the Museum of Islamic art as part of Qatar Marchitecture Week in 2018. Maysaa wrote, directed and performed in short art films Rites of Passage and Calling of the Congress as explorations of the role and character of design/set/objects within narrative film. Maysaa is currently producing her third short film due for completing in 2019.