MADDIE POWELL

ARTIST STATEMENT

I don’t know who originally said it (Shakespeare? Someone long before him, probably?), but it is said that playwrights hold a mirror up to nature. If that’s true, I think mine must be a fun-house mirror. I write plays that reflect our world, but a warped version of it, with rules that are askew from our own. My plots wobble the consequences that naturally follow our actions and my characters wibble the rules of social convention to–like a fun house mirror–make audiences laugh, and hopefully, surprise them with a different view of themselves.