Extended Bio
For her film “Countertransference,” she was awarded best female short film director at Sundance, by LA’s “Women In Film” organization. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, including: The Moscow International Film Festival, MoMA, The Viennale, The Festival Do Rio, Lincoln Center, Rooftop Films & BAMCinemaFEST. She did graduate work supported by fellowships, studying playwriting with Paula Vogel at Brown University, and filmmaking with Eric Mendelsohn at Columbia University’s MFA film program, where she was awarded the prestigious William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship & the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director. Her work has been supported by The Cinereach Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council of The Arts, and the Giard Foundation; she has been commissioned by The Atlantic Theater, The Public Theater & The Actors Theater of Louisville. She has twice been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. She has worked in a longtime dramaturgical collaboration with Yale Professor Deb Margolin.
Madeleine was originally a playwright who belonged to the Emerging Playwrights Lab at New York’s Public Theater; she wrote and directed over 24 of her original plays in downtown New York City venues. During the New York City lockdown, she performed a series of stand-up comedy shows on zoom with comedienne Jackie Monahan entitled “In Conclusion,” to facilitate pandemic PPE donations to NYC hospitals. She is a co-author of “The Practical Handbook for The Actor” (Vintage/Random House/foreword by David Mamet), a widely-used acting text which is required reading at many universities. As an undergrad at NYU, Madeleine directed classmate Molly Shannon in a comedy show where Shannon created the prototype for her famous SNL Catholic schoolgirl character.