dRAMATURGY
Madison’s work explores gender roles, the performance of femininity, and the politics of intimacy in theatre.
While studying at NYU, she pursued a minor in dramaturgy, developing a deep interest in how performance constructs identity, power, and spectatorship. Her interest in dramaturgical thinking began during her freshman year after reading Presence in Absentia, a text that sparked her curiosity about how audience-performer relationships and physical embodiment function on stage. Since then, she has approached both her academic and creative work through a dramaturgical lens, investigating how intimacy and gender are performed, negotiated, and witnessed in theatrical space.
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nyu 2025 hONORS THESIS
BEYOND THE GAZE: PERFORMING FEMININITY AND STAGING THE SELF THROUGH THE WORKS OF CLARE BARRON AND PAULA VOGEL
An investigation into how intimacy, female sexuality, and agency are represented in theatre and film, and how these representations can either reinforce or resist patriarchal power structures. Submitted in patial fulfillment of the honors certificate and for the degree Bachelor of Fine Arts. An abridged version of this paper was awarded the 2025 Global Winner in the Music, Film & Theatre category by The Global Undergraduate Awards.