Maddie Bautista is a sound designer and composer for theatre and film. Now based in Toronto/Tkaranto, Bautista was born in Saudi Arabia to Filipino parents. The cabaret she co-developed and performed with Deanna H. Choi, Love You Wrong Time, won two Dora Mavor Moore awards. Bautista is half of xLq – a queer pop performance duo.
Bautista was the co-lyricist with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and the composer for the songs included in St. Bernard’s play The First Stone (Playwrights Canada Press, 2025).
Drama
Love You Wrong Time
Maddie Bautista, Deanna H. Choi with Erin Brubacher.
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2026.
forthcoming Feb. 2026.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Love You Wrong Time is an uproarious, raunchy, and radically joyful song cycle from your new favourite Korean and Filipina–Vietnamese musical duo. Part cabaret, part game show, part stand-up, and all heart, this flamboyant musical comedy follows two friends looking for love while navigating yellow fever, cultural stereotypes, and the fetishization of Asian femmes.
Blending biting satire with virtuosic spectacle, the show leaps across genres—from K-pop to country to Gaga-style anthems—while inviting audiences to play for prizes in “ricebreakers” and re-enactments. The book includes original sheet music as well as behind-the-scenes insights into the show’s evolving creative process. Disrupting the subservient “model minority” myth, Love You Wrong Time is a battle cry for Asians ready to make a riot, creating a space for reclamation and resistance. It’s a good time with teeth.