Madison Mae Williams

Biography

Madison Mae Williams (she/her) is a seventh-year PhD candidate. Born and raised on Cape Cod, she received her BA concentrating in musical theatre, poetry, and Africana studies from Hampshire College. Maddie’s dissertation project focuses on alienation in countercultural performances of the Long Sixties. Her other research areas include American musical theatre, the Black Power/Arts movements, horror and the uncanny, performance for children, and the films of Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes.

Maddie has worked with La Jolla Playhouse, the Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Cygnet Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, the New Cosmopolitans, the Playwrights Realm, Chautauqua Theatre Company, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, among others. She is passionate about theatre work that is accessible, radical, and increases visibility and representation for people of marginalized identities. Maddie is a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the Black Theatre Network. UC San Diego credits: Just the Two of Us (director, WNPF ‘23), Machinal (dramaturg), Baal (director), Elektra (music director), Man In Love (dramaturg), Incendiary (director, WNPF ‘19 staged reading), Everybody Black (assistant/music director and dramaturg). 

Research

American musical theatre, the Black Power/Arts movements, horror and the uncanny, performance for children, the films of Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes

Education

BA in Musical Theatre, Poetry, and Africana Studies, Hampshire College

UC San Diego credits