Maiken Baird

Baird was an Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning film Icarus and is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, first producing Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer in 2010; later collaborations include Totally Under Control, "Divide and Conquer: The Rise and Fall of Roger Ailes", and BAFTA-nominated City of Ghosts.

Recent Executive Producer roles also include Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab; and "Tantura", which opened Sundance 2022.

[7] While Baird and Majors initially sought and received an invitation from the USTA to film at the 2011 US Open, the organization later claimed the pair had violated a five-minute limit to the use of licensed footage and presented a view of professional tennis which was "not in the best interest of the sport.

[8] In a letter co-written with Major, Baird appealed to the tennis community for support in challenging what she called an "attempt to censor filmmakers" by the USTA.

[12] Baird was the executive producer of Icarus, which follows the story of Bryan Fogel as he investigates the world of doping and the ability for athletes to hide their use of pharmacological support.

[14] In 2018 Baird also produced the film Cradle of Champions, which follows the 2015 New York State Golden Gloves and its competitors within the context of post-industrial urban America.