Madeleine Adriance

Madeleine Adriance

Madeleine Adriance is a playwright and performer who grew up in Portland, Oregon and Guatemala City. She is a senior at Brown University pursuing her BA in Theater.

At Brown, she was selected to participate in the Graduate Playwriting workshop lead by Julia Jarcho, and her play The Living Ones was awarded a departmental production with mentorship from Lisa D’Amour. She has received the Robinson...
Madeleine Adriance is a playwright and performer who grew up in Portland, Oregon and Guatemala City. She is a senior at Brown University pursuing her BA in Theater.

At Brown, she was selected to participate in the Graduate Playwriting workshop lead by Julia Jarcho, and her play The Living Ones was awarded a departmental production with mentorship from Lisa D’Amour. She has received the Robinson Potter Dunn and the Susan Ross Steinfeld awards for her contribution to the performing arts.

She received her first professional commission from the Young Professionals Company in Portland in 2022. SPIDER, the resulting play, was performed in fall 2023 and named the “most impactful” show of the fall by BroadwayWorld.

Madeleine has served as Literary Chair for the Sock & Buskin board, Brown’s joint student-faculty board that selects the TAPS Department season. She also has experience as an educator, assistant teaching classes at Oregon Children’s Theater and working as a peer-to-peer writing coach in the Writing Fellows program at Brown.

Plays

  • SPIDER
    “Baby Spiderman KILLED EVIL Spider!!” blows up on YouTube Kids. A rogue program escapes the Simulation — in a video game called Awakenings. And a choir prepares to sing with one voice. When a school shooting reveals the delicate web connecting these events, the people tangled within it start to wonder: who’s to blame? A play about iPad kids, collective trauma, and what we trust AI to do.
  • The Living Ones
    There’s a fire burning through the Pacific Northwest. Four teenagers on the brink of uncertain futures begin hearing a message from the old-growth forest near their home. Something like a song, echoing from the trees… Many years later, in the same place, two siblings grapple with the mystery of their recently deceased mother – an activist dedicated to forest preservation. Past, future, and present intertwine in...
    There’s a fire burning through the Pacific Northwest. Four teenagers on the brink of uncertain futures begin hearing a message from the old-growth forest near their home. Something like a song, echoing from the trees… Many years later, in the same place, two siblings grapple with the mystery of their recently deceased mother – an activist dedicated to forest preservation. Past, future, and present intertwine in this queer myth about the pain and joy of change.

    [Music Sample: "Levi's Song"
    Composed by Marijke Perry
    Lyrics by Madeleine Adriance
    Performed by David Sánchez Herrera]