Biography
Madeleine George's play The Most Massive Woman Wins premiered as part of the Young Playwrights Festival at the Public Theater in 1994. Since then her plays have included The Sore Loser, Hurricane Diane (Obie Award), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, Precious Little, and The Zero Hour. Honors include a Lilly Award, the Hermitage Major Theater Award, the Princess Grace Award, and a Whiting Award. Madeleine’s translation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters premiered at Two River Theater in 2022, and her audio adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For was released by Audible Originals in 2023. Madeleine has written on shows for FX and HBO, and was a writer/producer on four seasons of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building. Since 2006, she has worked with the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College, where she currently serves as Director of Admissions.
