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Madison Fiedler is a playwright from North Carolina. Her play SPAY (script + licensing available with Concord Theatricals) premiered at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in 2022, was awarded the 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award by the American Theatre Critics Association, and was honored as a nominee for the 2022 Jeff Award for Best New Work and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, runner-up for the Princess Grace Awards Playwriting Fellowship and Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, and finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award; it also appeared on the Kilroys List and in the National Showcase of New Plays. Recent productions + readings of her work have been seen at Ars Nova, American Lives Theatre, Studio Theatre, Bedlam, tall poPpy/Atlantic Theater Company, + Westport Country Playhouse. Residencies & conferences: Willapa Bay AiR, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Space Jam and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She’s a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. BA: Northwestern University. She lives in Brooklyn.
LATELY :
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NYC, 6/25 – HOMOFERMENTERS OR, THE PARK SLOPE CO-OP PLAY at Ars Nova (ANT Fest), dir. Francesca Sabel (Linewaiters’ Gazette interview: “All The Coop’s a stage: how the cheese shift turned into a slasher satire”)
Indianapolis, IN, 6/13-6/30 – SPAY at American Lives Theatre, dir. Jen Johansen
NYC, 3/25 – THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE in Bedlam’s Do More New Plays reading series, dir. Francesca Sabel
+ screenings of debut short film FISHBOWL:
Chicago, IL, 10/26 – Chicago International Film Festival (Comedic Shorts: Doing The Most)
Brooklyn, NY, 10/13 – Newfest (Shorts: Besties Brunch at Nitehawk Prospect Park)
East Hampton, NY, 10/10 & 10/11 (East Coast premiere) – Hamptons International Film Festival (Shorts: Views From Long Island)
Palm Springs, CA, 6/18-6/24 (world premiere) – Palm Springs International Short Fest
Her play excerpts can be found on New Play Exchange.