Madison Cole

Theatre Director Playwright

Theatre is a reflection of the realities of life. Whether that reality is idealized, deconstructed, twisted, rearranged, or something else on stage is the artist’s choice, but it is reality nonetheless.

I am not interested in making perfect theatre. I am not interested in writing perfect plays or directing them, because life is a mess. Characters are just people who happen to serve a story and who have the luxury of only ever existing within their singular, streamlined narrative. Within that narrative, it is the artist’s job to find the messy humanity of those characters in such a way that we forget what we’re watching is merely a story.

To find the messiness in the carefully constructed and to unleash it in all its glory.

https://www.madison-cole.com/

Credits

Director, Inferna, Riverside Studios, 2 Weeks, 2025 (upcoming)
Director, A Stan is Born, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1 Month, 2024
Director, Edward II, Camden Fringe Festival, 3 Days, 2024
Director, Lioness, Stratford East Royalty Scheme, 1 Day, 2023
Director and Book Writer, Daughters of the Pirate Queen, National Concert Hall of Ireland, 1 Day, 2023
Director, True West, Davenport-Pierson Auditorium, 4 Days, 2022
Director, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, The Off-Broadway Theater at Yale, 3 Days, 2022
Director, The Zoo Story, Whitney Theater at Yale, 4 Days, 2022
Director, A Chorus Line, The Yale University Theatre, 4 Days, 2022
Director and Book Writer, Heaven and Hell, Whitney Theater at Yale, 1 Week, 2022
Director, A Few Good Men, Whitney Theater at Yale, 1 Week, 2022
Director, Shining City, Branford Calliope Courtyard, 3 Days, 2021
Director, Dinner, Yale Playwrights Festival, 1 Day, 2021
Director, American Idiot, Crescent Underground Theater, 4 Days, 2020

Assistant Director, A Stan is Born, Soho Theatre, 1 Day, 2024
Trainee Assistant Director, Bronco Billy: The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre, 10 Weeks, 2024
Assistant Director, The Worst Witch, The Tower Theatre, 2 Weeks, 2024
Assistant Director, Ireland: Where Legend Lives, Ireland Week Los Angeles, 1 Day, 2024
Assistant Director, The Muff-Diving Palace of Wonder, HOT Festival NYC, 1 Day, 2023
Assistant Director, Friend Animals, Midnight Oil Collective, 1 Day, 2023
Assistant Director, Stargazers, Midnight Oil Collective, 1 Day, 2023
Assistant Director, Sweeney Todd, Yale University Theatre, 5 Days, 2019
Assistant Director, The Last Five Years, Lighten Theatre, 4 Days, 2019

Training

YALE UNIVERSITY – Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre Studies, with Distinction. December 2022
Honors and Awards: Questbridge National College Match Scholarship, Finalist for the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts, International Summer Award for study at LAMDA
LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART – Shakespeare Summer Intensive. 2022

Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Gaming and interactivity
  • Graphic / product design
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Creative Access
  • Curating
  • Devising
  • Dialect / Voice Direction
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Producing
  • Prop Making
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Video Design
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Dutch

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