Madeline Wall

photo by Paran Kashani.

MARY'S WONDROUS BODY

Re-wrote and directed the second iteration of The Birth Play Project's breakout production at the Elision Playhouse September 8th-17th, 2023. Read a review from MPR News at the link below. Photo by Emily Garst.

DRY LAND

Produced and directed the Minnesota premiere of Ruby Rae Spiegel's play at the University of Minnesota June 14th-17th, 2018. Photo by Noelle Kirscht. See link below for more about the production.

photo by Paran Kashani.

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Greetings! Thanks for being here.

I am a writer and theatre creature based in Minneapolis, MN. I write and direct plays, and I also act and choreograph intimacy for the stage. My artistic research is centered on "womb stories," I produce theatre via The Birth Play Project (@birthplayproject on Instagram), and make my artistic home at the Elision Playhouse just outside of Minneapolis.

This article, published in the May 2022 issue of the Minnesota Women's Press, is a great "I Am" Song for the work that I do. It's titled Placing Birth in Public Memory.

I also love staging queerness-as-transcendence, love Shakespeare, and have recently become comfortable calling myself a songwriter / lyricist.

Words I appreciate that have been used to describe my work:
Precision. Muscular. Enchanting, wickedly smart. Heart-first, siren-voiced, joy-giver, avenging angel. A force, difficult to define and quantify. The magic was there.

RECENT NEWS: Mary's Wondrous Body returned reimagined to the Elision Playhouse September 8th-17th, 2023. Read the review from MPR News here and follow The Birth Play Project @birthplayproject on Instagram.

My next project is Theatre Elision's regional premiere of Grace McLean's In The Green, opening February 2024 at the Elision Playhouse.

To connect with me as a human, email madelinejwall97@gmail.com! To inquire specifically about the work of The Birth Play Project, email birthplayproject@gmail.com.