Madeline CharneDirector of Education & Programs
Contact: madeline@phillyyoungplaywrights.org Phone: 215-665-9226 x101 Madeline Charne is a teaching artist, dramaturg, facilitator, and arts administrator with a lifelong love of storytelling. Having worked as a teaching artist for over a decade, she has worked with students aged 3-93 at theaters, schools, libraries, day programs, prisons, hospitals, and camps across the east coast. Madeline graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2020 with an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism and a focus on dramaturgies of disability and community based theater making. Although she loves her research and time spent in the rehearsal room, her true passion lies in teaching and she is grateful to have exercised that passion through theaters all over Philadelphia, teaching with the Wilma, the Walnut, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, the Arden, InterAct, Theater Horizon, the Lantern, and Wolf PAC. Madeline is coming to Philadelphia Young Playwrights from a position as the Director of Education and Community at the Philadelphia Film Society, where she built a program of field trips, residencies, and community screenings that served over 8000 young people each year. In addition to this work, Madeline has dramaturged productions at Swarthmore College, La Jolla Playhouse, and Roundabout Theater Company, among others, and has had her writing published in Theater Magazine. Madeline began her career as a teaching artist with Philadelphia Young Playwrights as an apprentice in 2015. Learning from the resident teaching artists and administrators at PYP to lead from a place of compassion, teach from a place of respect, and create from a place of curiosity. Since then she has taught in over a dozen PYP classrooms and dramaturged nearly 50 student plays. PYP has been Madeline’s artistic home in Philadelphia and she has spread the values of the organization far and wide, building programming in New York City and New Haven, CT that takes a trauma informed, student driven approach to storytelling instruction. |