Madeleine trained in Theatre Design at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and graduated in 2001.
In April, 2009 The Independent Opera production of Pelléas et Mélisande (2008) at Sadler's Wells, for which Madeleine designed the set and costumes, was shortlisted for The Royal Philharmonic Society award for Opera and Music Theatre. Madeleine was a finalist in the European Opera Directing Prize 2007, with her Design concept for Rusalka by Dvorak, with Director Alessandro Talevi. She was recently awarded the 2008 design fellowship from Independent Opera.
Recent designs include:
Set and Costume Design: The Marriage and La cambiale di matrimonio, Opera double bill at the Guildhall school of music and drama, London.
Set and Costume Design: La fedelta premiata, Royal Academy of Music, London
Costume Design: Peter Grimes for San Carlo Opera House, Napoli.
Set and Costume Design: Pelléas et Mélisande for Independent Opera at The Lillian Bayliss Theatre, Sadler's Wells, London.
Set and Costume Design: All about it by Rachael McGill, for the Big Fish Theatre Company, touring show.
Set and Costume Design: Partenope by Handel, for Les Azuriales Opera at the Ephrussi de Rothschild Villa, Cote d'Azur, France.
Set and Costume Design: La Colombe and L'occasione fa il ladro, Opera double bill at the Guildhall school of music and drama, London.
Set Design: The Sofa and The Departure two short Operas by Elizabeth Maconchy for Independent Opera at The Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadler's Wells, London.
Costume Design: Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck at Theatre Augsburg, Germany
Set and Costume Design: La Gazzetta and La Scala di Seta for the Belcanto Rossini festival in Wildbad, Germany.
Set Design: Rhymes, reasons and bombass beatz a hip-hop monologue at the studio space of the Oval Theatre, London.
Set and Costume Design: True Stories at the studio space of the Drill Hall, London.
