Actor/Director/Dramaturg/Loud

Madsie Flynn

Madsie (they/them/she/her) is an actor, writer, director and incredibly not-fast amateur runner who lives in New York City. They love making new work for the stage. They really love it.

Although best known for originating roles in Heathers the Musical, DAVE, and Ever After the Musical, it is likely worth noting that Madsie has also won the Boston marathon twice, as long as we are defining "won" really loosely.

Madsie creates art borne out of (usually feminist) rage and joy. She is partial to pigtails, even though she is "too grown for that" (Madsie's Mom, 2024), exactly half Middle Eastern (Madsie's Mom, 1987), and fully tired (no citation).

They once worked as a farm-hand and "historical re-enacter" at a Shaker museum. It went not great.

Directing & Dramturgy (pdf)

Madsie has developed new work as a director, dramaturg, writer, actor, consultant and deviser at The Lark, UT Austin, New World Stages, Mile Square Theater, The Orchard Project, New York Theater Workshop, Goodspeed, Alliance Theater, The Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, The Tank NYC, The Wild Project, Arena Stage, NYU Tisch, Miami University and Harvard University.

They are the co-artistic director of Catastrophe Playlist alongside collaborator and playwright Frank Winters. The company builds work for the stage with a focus on adapting old stories and discovering new ones which amplify the presence of queer and othered bodies.

Madsie has been described by Time Out New York as "smart and ubertalented", and Time Out subsequently rated their solo show "Madsie Flynn: There Will Be Feelings" (musical direction by Laurence O'Keefe) as a Critic's Pick, which was neat.

Madsie is a published author (co-contributing, weirdly, to a book about the history of the insanity defense), and an honors Harvard graduate.

Madsie was raised in a diner, and is likely at another one, somewhere, right now.