Madelyn Sher is a dance and theater artist from Staten Island, New York. She has performed at BRIC, Knockdown Center, Danspace Project, JACK, in galleries, hallways, backyards, warehouses, lawns, and at the end of a pier. Madelyn has danced in works by Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Olive Prince, Vangeline Theater, Duane Lee Holland, evan ray suzuki, REDi Dance Company, Alexander Davis, and others. As an actor, she was a recurring guest star on a TV show called The Baker and the Beauty, a romantic comedy that premiered on ABC in 2020 and became the number one show on Netflix in 2021. She performed for several seasons with Bronx Arts Ensemble/Lehman Children's Theater Company, which brings classic fairytales with a modern spin to young Bronx audiences. Currently Madelyn dances for Chloe London and Nami Yamamoto and is part of the devising process for LUNCH, a new play by Mary Beth Brooker premiering in 2026. 

 

Madelyn's choreographic work has been presented at various venues and festivals in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts including WestFest, Cosmic Cherry Festival, Queer Butoh Festival, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, CREST, SMUSH Gallery, and Triskelion Arts. In 2024 Madelyn received the Lehman Alumni Choreography Fellowship to set a new work on students (entitled Suchness) for the Dance in Dialogue series. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Croft Residency (Horton Bay, Michigan) and annex:art (San Fidel, New Mexico). Her short dance film, Looking Inwood, won her the Promising Filmmaker Award at CUNY Film Festival 2018. In 2025 she received a DCLA Premier Grant from Staten Island Arts to develop and present Dandelions, a multidisciplinary composition created in collaboration with composer Leo Hardman-Hill. She has an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and is the 2025 Arts Fellow in Dance at Emory University.

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Madelyn is also an educator and administrator. She values arts and education organizations which inspire communities and new generations of art-makers and audiences. For five years she produced Groundswell Series, an annual site-specific outdoor dance festival that brings dance into shared spaces in parks and playgrounds in Brooklyn, NY. She completed marketing internships with Pentacle -working directly with The Yard in Martha's Vineyard - and Movement Research. Madelyn has worked in New York City elementary and middle schools for several years, teaching and assisting dance, drama, and music classes. She has taught at the college-level at Smith College and Emory University, teaching courses in Contemporary/Modern Dance, Ballet, Butoh, and Dance for Everybody. She occasionally teaches community classes through the NY Butoh Institute and at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.