Madeline Myers

Biography

Madeline Myers is a composer and lyricist for musical theater in New York City. Her musicals include Grand Central, Double Helix (world premiere Bay Street Theater, 2023), Flatbush Avenue (UNC-Greensboro commission), and The Devil’s Apprentice, (world premiere Copenhagen).

Named to the 2022 Broadway Women’s Fund “Women to Watch on Broadway” list, Madeline is a 2024, 2023, & 2022 Kleban Prize finalist for lyric writing, a winner of the 2021 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award presented by New York Stage & Film and the Ziegfeld Club; a 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist; a 2019 York Theatre Company NEO Writer; a 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 ASCAP Plus Award recipient; and a 2016-2017 Dramatists Guild Fellow. 



Madeline’s musicals have been developed at Bay Street Theatre, the York Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals (2023 Festival of New Musicals, the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove), the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, the Fingerlakes Musical Theater Festival, Musical Theater Factory, the NMI Disney Imagineering New Voices Project, the New York Theatre Barn, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project.



When not writing musicals, Madeline enjoys reading, walking in Central Park, and volunteering with Central Synagogue’s unhoused breakfast program. In 2018, Madeline created the Blair School of Music Student Citizen Award given to a female student demonstrating excellence in personal character and contributions to the community. Madeline sits on the Alumni Board of the Vanderbilt University Ingram Scholarship Program, of which she is a proud alumna. She is an original member of the music department of the Broadway production of Hamilton.

Madeline is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. She is represented by Chris Till at Paradigm Talent Agency. @madelinesmyers www.madelinemyers.com