Maddie Dennis-Yates

mdennisyates@gmail.com / 973-261-3803 / New Play Exchange

 

Education

  Hunter College, M.F.A. Playwriting, 2025

  National Theater Institute, Advanced Playwriting Diploma, 2019

  George Washington University, B.A. Art History, 2015

Writers Groups/Ensembles/Residencies

First Kiss Theater Residency, 2023

Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Residency, 2021

INKubator New Play Program, Art House Productions, 2020-2021

Workshop Theater Writer’s Intensive, Winter 2021

   Additional: EST/Youngblood Finalist, 2023-2024

Selected Plays: Full-Length

  Vanessa the Miracle Girl

Semifinalist, Fault Line Theater, Irons in the Fire, 2024

Reading (dir. Tara Ahmadinejad), First Kiss Theater, 2023

We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen

Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Playwrights Conference, 2023

Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, 2023

Reading (dir. Kat Yen), INKubator New Play Program, Art House Productions, 2021

Second Round Selection, Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, 2021

  this is not the reunion

Production, North Central College, 2024

Reading (dir. Caitlin Durkin), Historically Close Friends, 2023

  Workshop reading (dir. Emily Newmark), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 2023

  Writers group workshop, Workshop Theater Writer’s Intensive, 2021

Commission*, Stagefemmes, Kenyon College, 2020 

*Production canceled due to COVID-19. Workshop took place.  

Untitled Mary Rogers Play

Commission, reading (dir. Seonjae Kim), Art House Productions, 2022

An Absolutely Gorgeous Room

Residency workshop, Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Residency, 2021

Other Related Experience

Selection Committee Member, INKubator New Play Program, 2022

Mentor & Committee Member, Creative Careers Accelerator (Dramatic Writing Cohort), New York University, 2022

Reader, Young Playwrights Festival, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2022

Reader, Athena Project Plays in Progress, 2021

Reader, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2020

Mentor, NOMADS New Play Festival, Columbia University, 2020

Literary Intern & Script Assistant, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2019

Literary Intern, Abingdon Theatre Company, 2015