Madeline Barr is from Denver, Colorado where she attended the Denver School of the Arts as a theatre major. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing. She resides in Brooklyn, New York where she works as an actress, director, and theater maker. In winter of 2016 she won a grant from the New York Society Library's "Emerging Female Playwrights" program for her part in devising collage play "Three", directed by Stephen Spinella. She was in a workshop for Tony Kushner's play "Stella" at the Public Theatre, directed by Austin Pendelton. Notable theater credits include acting in Richard Schechner's American debut of Imagining O, directing Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train as well as a play she wrote entitled Edward Forty Hands at

The Black Actor's Guild, interning with Stephen Adly Guirgis and Austin Pendleton on Between Riverside and Crazy and working as an apprentice at the LAByrinth
theatre company's summer intensive. She appeared in Matty O' Conner's film, "Wash Park", and acted in the leading role of "Charlotte" in Lorraine Portman's "Falling South".