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Madeline’s been a theatre practitioner for 30 years. Alongside her work as a performer and a director, she is a teacher and a producer of original theatre work by women.

Madeline has devised and directed many ensemble and solo performance works for the theatre, most recently Demeter’s Dark Ride—An Attraction at Bats, a STAB project made with a major Creative New Zealand grant, Fishnet, a Bipeds Productions work with dancers Lyne Pringle and Kilda Northcott, and The Dream Working with Acting Up Special Stars. She has also performed many other playwrights’ work. She won the Evening Post Best Female Performance for ‘Steph’ in Lorae Parry’s Frontwomen and a Chapman Tripp Theatre Nomination for Best Actress for ‘Jack/Eugenia’ in Eugenia, also by Lorae Parry.

While Madeline’s primary focus is theatre she has also worked in film and television. Her film work includes parts in Gaylene Preston’s Bread & Roses, Lorae Parry’s Virginia’s Candy and Sally Rodwell’s Shoes and Heaven’s Cloudy Smile. She won the NZ Film and Television Awards W.I.F.T. Auckland Best Supporting Actress award for ‘Mira’ in Broken English. Her work in television includes parts in Cover Story, Shark in the Park, and Swiss Family Robinson. She won a NZ Film and Television Awards Best Supporting Performance in a Dramatic Role Television as 'Ngaire’ in Xmas For Lou directed by Kate Jason Smith.

Madeline co-founded Magdalena Aotearoa, a network of women in contemporary theatre, with Sally Rodwell in 1997 and was co-artistic director of the Magdalena Aotearoa International Festival of Women’s Performance held in Wellington March 1999.

Madeline is currently co-artistic director of Acting Up Charitable Trust, an organisation that provides training and performance opportunities in the fields of theatre, film and music for people with learning disabilities. .