Maddy has always had a passion for storytelling. The theatre has served as a common thread throughout all of her childhood, high school years, college, and beyond. Maddy spent two years studying Theatre Arts with a directing concentration at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago. Her studies were deepened by serving as Assistant Director on three mainstage productions, including in the historic Merle Reskin Theatre. Following her days in Chicago, she participated in the Disney College Program, serving as a park entry cast member at Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World. 

When the pandemic hit, Maddy finished her undergraduate studies with the University of Arkansas, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She then looked inward to see what she wanted to do next, and, as counterintuitive as it may initially seem, law school felt like the next step. Currently in her third and final year, Maddy is a law student who sees her legal studies as a natural extension of her love of storytelling. The Venn-Diagram of law and theatre include rhetoric, advocacy, perspective framing, and narrative. 

Maddy sees her role with Arts One Presents as an opportunity to use her legal studies and type-A personality to help facilitate the creation of art. In addition to her work as Production Coordinator, she has also had the privilege of serving as the stage manager on AOP's last two summer musicals: Sweeney Todd and Disney's Beauty and the Beast. 

The business of show business is unveiling itself as more of a passion every day for Maddy, and the work AOP does in creating inclusive spaces for collaboration, creation, and community building is in perfect alignment with her perspectives on the power of art. It is through art and storytelling that we learn empathy, and Maddy is proud to pave a career that helps facilitate that empathy vessel.