Madeline Brennan
502-489-7824
Madeline Brennan
Actor/Singer
REEL
My Bio
I started acting in musicals at the age of 10 (The Artful Dodger, Oliver!) and, save for a few pauses along the way, haven't stopped. My professional acting history is largely in theater but I've added film/television/commercial work more recently and begun print modeling as a middle aged woman (oddly enough). I've sung jazz since college and write/perform my own music (indie/folk).
Favorite roles in regional theaters include Eva Peron (Evita), Nancy (Oliver!), Sarah Brown (Guys and Dolls), and Clairee Belcher (Steel Magnolias). I like to think I'm equally adept at drama and comedy. Although I'm a very physical actor (Peter Pan understudy in my mid-forties), I am frequently cast as the older, upscale, intimidating: "bitch-with-a-heart-of-gold" type. That's what I can look like; what I AM like is Liz Lemon (i.e., I would use a scented candle for deoderant in a pinch).
I've filled out my performance life with 2 years of Peace Corps Service, masters degrees in theater and clinical psychology, raising a salt-of-the-earth young man, and professions as a teacher and therapist. I am service oriented--it's the former Catholic in me--and volunteer for Musicians On Call in NYC hospitals.
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Madeline Brennan
Baker Management
212 262-4234
Theater Roles
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LITTLE WOMEN Aunt March Gallery PLayers, Brooklyn, NY
A SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE Mother Everyday Inferno Theater, NYC
STEEL MAGNOLIAS Clairee Belcher Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY
HOLDING THE MAN Mary Gert Conigrave GMHC Benefit, Staged Reading, NYC
FIVE WOMEN Elaine Fitzpatrick Hudson Guild Theatre, NYC
4.5.1 Professor Faber Access Theater, NYC
PETER PAN Peter Understudy/Slightly S. Derby Dinner Playhouse, IN
EVITA Eva Peron Center Stage Theater, KY
THE SOUND OF MUSIC Elsa Von Schraeder Center Stage Theatre, KY
INTO THE WOODS Lucinda Center Stage Theater, KY
OLIVER! Nancy Music Theater Louisville, KY
ALISON’S HOUSE Elsa Pleiades Theatre Co., KY
THE NERD Clelia Waldgrave KY Contemporary Theatre, KY
I’M HERBERT Muriel NYCD Players, KY
GUYS AND DOLLS Sarah Brown Cider Mill Playhouse, Endicott, NY
BRIGADOON Fiona McLaren Anderson Center, SUNY Binghamton
THE SNARK Bonnets Anderson Center, SUNY Binghamton
Film
SEEKING ASYLUM Olivia Fierstein Graduate Shool of Cinema
A WILDERNESS OF ERROR Julia Sheehan FX and Blumhouse
HUSTLE ON LOMBARD Angela Purple Lollipop Bandits, Dir. Matt Torsell
MAY I SPEAK, NOW Therapist NYU Directing Student: Robert Frankel
THE SPY WHO RAISED ME Barbara A & E Production
THE LOST BEAUTY Ms Watson Student Film: Philip Cherichenko
Special Skills
- vocal styles: Broadway, jazz, blues, folk, originals
- Guitar/Violin
- American Sign Language, French, Swahili
- Accents: American (NY, LI, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Deep South, Appalacian), British, French, - German, Russian.
