MADELEINE POTTER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program

Madeleine Potter is an actress and director residing in London. She has dual Irish and American citizenship. Her recent London theatre credits include True West (Vaudeville Theatre) and The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court). Pre pandemic recent US credits include the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet (2019, 2017) in Washington DC and The Glass Menagerie (Fords Theatre, 2016). Other London credits include Electra and The Internationalist (Gate Theatre),  4:48 Psychosis (Royal Court), After Mrs Rochester, Madame Melville, An Ideal Husband (West End), All My Sons, Southwark Fair (National Theatre), Broken Glass (Tricycle), The Water’s Edge (Arcola). Her Broadway credits include Plenty, Slab Boys, Metamorphoses, Coastal Disturbances, The Master Builder, The Crucible, A Little Hotel On the Side, Getting Married. Other NY credits include Pygmalion (Roundabout), Richard III (NYSF), Playboy of the Western World (Irish Rep), The Plough and the Stars and many more. Madeleine’s film credits include The Bostonians, Slaves of New York, The Golden Bowl and The White Countess, all for Merchant Ivory; recent television includes Cobra, Foyles War, Houdini and Mr Selfridge in which she played Elizabeth Arden. She has done numerous radio plays and other voice work. She has taught for BADA, FSU, Manchester School of Theatre (MST) and she has directed for MST, Rose Bruford and Synergy Theatre Project. Madeleine is a member of the Actors Studio.