Madison Fargo is a Chicago-based playwright and director. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lawrence Bundschu and Warren Snoddy Endowed Playwriting Prize. In Chicago, her plays have been seen at DePaul University, Chicago Fringe Festival and Victory Gardens Theatre. Nationally, her plays have been produced at Thespis Theatre Festival in New York, Westmont College in California, and Hightstown Theatre in New Jersey. She is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she was a playwriting major, and the recipient of the 2018 Zach Helm Playwriting Scholarship. Her play JEFF AND THE DEAD GIRL was fully produced as a part of the Theatre School's 2018-2019 season (dir. Shade Murray). She was published in the literary magazine The Avalanche Biannual in spring of 2020, and she participated in the Winter 2020 Jackalope Playwrights Lab. She is also a director, and has helmed a full length production of HUNTER GATHERERS by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, as well as a 10 minute piece for Victory Gardens Theatre's College Night.