Madi's Birthday Education Fund!

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Madi's Birthday Education Fund!

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Dear family and friends--

Thank you for being in my life and for helping me celebrate my birthday! It's my birthday on July 25th and there's only one thing I want for my birthday: to be able to be an actor.

The featured picture is of me and the cast of Savage in Limbo which is a a play I am starring in and producing this summer with my friends from school. I'm also performing in the New York Theater Festival this summer!

THE SHORT STORY:

For this birthday, I'd love nothing more than the support of my friends and family to help me get closer to being a professional, working actor by supporting me in my educational costs. I will not be able to attend the second year of my conservatory program with my current finances. Any amount you can contribute to support that is SO appreciated as you will literally be helping me make my dreams come true! No amount is too little or too much! And if you can't contribute, encouragement and showing up to future performances are also both priceless gifts as the road of being an actor is long and hard, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

THE LONG STORY full of childhood pictures:

Many of you know, but my childhood dream was to be an actor. If you weren't there, here is a picture of me as a small child in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Want more evidence? Here is a picture of me as Maria in The Sound of Music when I was about 10 years old.

And it kept going! Here is me in Guys and Dolls back when I was in high school:

And in college performing Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty:

Okay, if you weren't there, you get the idea--I loved theater, I did almost nothing else for a long time.

I reconnected with my love for performing just after the pandemic when I moved to New Orleans and performed and worked nonstop creating theater with a company that I'm still a member of, Intramural Theater . See some photos from me in their productions below:

But I returned to NYC a year ago because I was invited to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater's 2 year acting conservatory program. For the last year I have studied one of the most renowned acting techniques, the Meisner Technique, in the school where it was created. And I have studied under teachers who learned the technique from the artist who created it, Sanford Meisner. This is a rigorous, intensive, competitive, professional acting school that I feel lucky to be a part of--every day I am deepening my committment to my artistry which in turn is making me a more attentive, caring, responsive, and fulfilled human and more well-positioned to thrive as an actor.

I was able to attend the first year thanks to generous scholarship money from the school and from the savings that I left New Orleans with--because it is a full time educational program, my ability to earn money during the program is very limited.

I can't afford to pay for the second year of my program at present. If I take out a high-interest rate private loan to be able to cover the large sum that I will need to pay for the second year's expenses and I don't want to have to stop acting as soon as I leave the program to make back the money I would owe. I want to continue using the training so that I can learn from doing it, make and grow my connections with acting, and set myself up to be able to be an actor in the long term.

Thank you for being in my life

Here are more photos for kicks: