Maddie is a playwright and screenwriter whose plays have been developed with or commissioned by Fresh Ground Pepper, Workshop Theater, Art House Productions, Stagefemmes at Kenyon College, the Emerging Professional Residents at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and others. Her work has also been produced, read, and/or awarded by the Austin Film Festival (Playwriting Competition), New Short Play Festival, Source Festival, D.C. Shorts Film Festival, Women's Weekend Film Challenge, and others. She’s worked with young theatermakers as a mentor for Columbia University’s NOMADS New Play Festival, a reader for the O’Neill’s Young Playwrights Festival, and a career coach for Dramatic Writing students at NYU.

Maddie studied playwriting at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and she returned to the O’Neill as a script assistant for its summer conferences. She’s studied comedy writing at Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City, and she attended George Washington University in D.C., where she was an art history major. Until recently, she was a professional horse girl.

Her work lives in worlds that could crack open at any moment, and where people try really hard to say what they mean and often fail spectacularly. Favorite subjects include ghosts, young athletes, existential panic, bodily dread, and obsession.