Madeline (Maddie) Easley is a New York-based, Wyandotte writer from Kansas City, MO. Her work tells epic stories to provide frameworks for living in decolonial futures. Madeline (she/her) is a 2025-2027 Venturous Playwrighting Fellow at the Playwrights Center in partnership with the Venturous Theater Fund and Soho Rep, a 2025 First Peoples Performing Arts Fellow, a 2025 AICH Governor's Island Artist-In-Residence, and the inaugural Four Directions Playwright Fellow. Her plays and films have been presented at the Kansas City Repertory Theater (KCREP), Native Voices at the Autry, Rattlestick Theater, the American Indian Community House (AICH), REACH at the Kennedy Center, the TCL Chinese Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and more. Notable past residencies/fellowships/writer's groups include the New Harmony Project, Peacedale Global Arts, and SPACE on Ryder Farms, First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellow. She is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BS).