Madeline Leavitt - Artistic Director

Artistic Director, Executive Producer & Choreographer - Madeline Leavitt

Madeline Leavitt is an eclectic stage director, choreographer, and producer. Her work expands the boundaries of dance and musical theatre by combining different forms of movement with the use of multimedia. Previous productions include With Memories on Their Backs: Honoring the Plight of Refugees on location at Japanese American National Museum (2019), Echo Park Lake (2019) and Burton Chase Park (2018), Strings Attached - The Ties That Make Us Human at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (2016), Eating Rocks for Hunger (2009) at Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica, as well as Holding Up the Sky (2003) and The Bride and the Brothel (2001), both at Gascon Center Theatre in Culver City. 

Madeline was the director, choreographer, and producer for Santa Monica Alternative School House Theater Arts Program for nine years, where she mounted fifteen productions. Leavitt was the co-director and choreographer for Ishvani Dance Company, which performed classical dances of Southern India (Bharata Natyam) combined with theatre pieces. For her work with Ishvani Dance Company, Leavitt was chosen by the California Arts Council as an artist-in-residence.

Leavitt was also the artistic director for The Mother Wrappers, a women’s theatre company that combined comic and Felliniesque sensibilities to the portrayal of women's issues. She was also the director, choreographer, and producer for the premier avant-garde theatre group Angels of Light Theatre Company. The San Francisco Bay Area Critics Drama Circle nominated Leavitt for “Best Principle Performer” in the production of Holy Cow. Leavitt’s influences include Judith Jamison from Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Martha Graham, Rudolf Nureyev, Pina Bausch, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Hanne Tierney, James Thierrée and Victoria Thierrée Chaplin.

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Voices Carry, Inc 1998 - Present

Shows produced by Voices Carry

With Memories on Their Backs: Echo Park, Los Angeles, (2009) Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, (2019), Burton Chase Park, Marina Del Rey, (2018)

Strings Attached, The Ties that Make Us Human (2016), The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles

• Eating Rocks for Hunger (2009) 
  Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA
• Holding Up the Sky (2003)
  Gascon Center Theater, Culver City, CA
• The Bride and the Brothel (2001)
  Gascon Center Theater, Culver City, CA

 

Portfolio

Director, Choreographer & Producer - Santa Monica Alternative School House

Madeline directed the children’s Theater Arts Program for nine years, mounting fifteen established and original productions, including: Antigone, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Elephant Man, and West Side Story.

Photos by Tom Randolph

Artistic Director - The Mother Wrappers

The Mother Wrappers, was a women’s theater company that combined comic and Felliniesque sensibilities in their portrayal of women's issues.

Ishvani Dance Company - Co-Director & Choreographer

Angels of Light Theatre Company - Director, Choreographer & Producer

Madeline was the director, choreographer, and producer for the premier avant garde theater group Angles of Light Theatre Company. Madeline was nominated for a Principle Performance in a musical for the production of Holy Cow by The San Francisco Bay Area Critics Drama Circle. She was nominated along side Whoopi Goldberg and the tap dancing duo, the Nicholas Brothers.

Bernard Weiner, the DATEBOOK, San Francisco Chronicle, “Holy Cow… a dragon begins tap dancing in the middle of a romantic epic, and when the queen mother has elephant feet, you know you’re in a culturally different piece of theater. Madeline Bloom Leavitt dance’s as Kamala are enchanting and her duo dance with Rodney Price totally captivating.”