About
Madison Cole (any pronouns) is a an award-winning theatre and film maker based in London. They have a dual B.A. in English and Theatre Studies from Yale University with concentrations in Playwriting and Directing, respectively. Recently, they directed the sold-out world premiere of Daughters of the Pirate Queen at the National Concert Hall of Ireland.
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Recent directorial projects include Lioness (EdFringe 2025), A Stan is Born (EdFringe 2024, 2025, and International Tour), Sunland (Camden Fringe and Riverside Studios), among others. She also directed her original play Inferna in its world premiere at Riverside Studios in January 2025, to sold-out audiences.
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Assistant work includes Bronco Billy: The Musical at the Charing Cross Theatre, The Worst Witch at the Tower Theatre, and Sisters at the Jack Studio Theatre. They also served as 1st AD to award-winning cinematographer Steven Fierberg on the film The Spirit Lock.​
Artist's Statement
Theatre is a reflection of the realities of life. Whether that reality is idealized, deconstructed, twisted, rearranged, or something else on stage is the artist’s choice, but it is reality nonetheless.
I am not interested in making perfect theatre. I am not interested in writing perfect plays or directing them, because life is a mess. Characters are just people who happen to serve a story and who have the luxury of only ever existing within their singular, streamlined narrative. Within that narrative, it is the artist’s job to find the messy humanity of those characters in such a way that we forget what we’re watching is merely a story.
To find the messiness in the carefully constructed and to unleash it in all its glory.