A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Born:
January 15, 1972
Madelaine is an award-winning Theatre and Screen Director, and Artistic Director of female-focussed theatre company, The Thelmas. She was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Sir Peter Hall Director’s Award. She was one of three Directors in the 2020/21 Old Vic 12 cohort, and has recently been awarded an MGCfutures Bursary to develop a radical adaptation of Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy, The Rover. Madelaine’s work is strongly informed by her interest in disrupting traditional gendered narratives and tackling big ideas through a feminist lens. She enjoys exploring themes of social justice and political issues in surprising and irreverent ways through playfulness with form, and drilling down into common tropes and subverting them. She works in two main areas; professional text-based theatre, and in participatory settings, particularly within the male prison estate. ‘Twitching’ is her debut short film. She begins shooting her second short, ‘For Good Or Ill, Rain Will Come’ in September 2022 Theatre credits include: Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Goblin (Old Vic Theatre, staged reading), Ladykiller (National Tour, Brits Off Broadway), Evelyn ( Mercury Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Algorithms (Soho Theatre, Netflix Stage to Screen Winner), Second Person Narrative (Arcola Theatre), The Awakening (Jack Studio), FATTY FAT FAT (Soho Theatre, Origins Award winner), Santi & Naz (VAULT, Origins Award winner)
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.