Madison Mae Williams (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and scholar currently based in New England.

Born and raised on Cape Cod, she received her PhD in Theatre and Drama from UC San Diego, and BA concentrating in musical theatre, poetry, and Africana studies from Hampshire College. Her dissertation project focused on alienation in countercultural performance in the Long Sixties. Maddie’s 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 University of San Diego, the New Cosmopolitans, the Playwrights Realm, Chautauqua Theatre Company, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. 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.

Maddie enjoys fun earrings, crate digging, playing piano, loud prints, sailing, 1970s world cinema, and maintaining a balance of whimsy and groundedness in her life.