Madeline (Maddie) Easley is a New York–based Wyandotte writer and playwright. Her work tells epic stories to offer frameworks for living in decolonial futures. She is a 2025–2027 Venturous Playwriting Fellow at the Playwrights Center, in partnership with the Venturous Theater Fund and Soho Rep; a 2025 First Peoples Fund Performing Arts Fellow; a 2025 American Indian Community House (AICH) Governor’s Island Artist-in-Residence; and the inaugural Four Directions Playwright Fellow. Her plays and films have been presented at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry, the American Indian Community House, REACH at the Kennedy Center, the TCL Chinese Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and elsewhere. Past residencies, fellowships, and writers’ groups include the New Harmony Project, Peacedale Global Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship. Madeline is a graduate of the University of Evansville and a citizen of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma.