Madelyn Dundon

Madelyn Dundon is a stage and film actress, singer, and dancer. She attended West Virginia University on a full scholarship for the School of Theater and Dance, where she trained in opera and dance. Her debut on screen came in 2018 with Daniel Roebuck's Getting Grace (2019), for which she won the Northeast Film Festival's Best Actress in a Leading Role award. Credits have followed such as the female lead playing opposite Basil Hoffman in Lucky Louie (2023), the lead role of Dale Green in the upcoming The Ruse (Post Production) from Writer/Director Stevan Mena and Academy Award winner John Caglione Jr. producing. In 2024 she starred as "Hazel" in Hazel, a period feature film from Canticle Productions about the young North Dakota heroine Hazel Miner. Her preference for film work includes period pieces, comedy, and classic stories with strong female characters. Her passion for history informs her creation of one-woman plays on notable female artists, philanthropists, other earth-shakers in history for museums and cultural heritage institutions. Miss Dundon portrays Emily Folger, co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, at the Folger's annual Open House in honor of the Bard's birthday. Miss Dundon has created a series of one-woman plays for the Smithsonian Institution on the lives and work of various women artists. Miss Dundon performs regularly as a traditional jazz vocalist and records with incomparable pianist Matt Asti in the duo, Two for Tea - part of the Satsuma Collective. The group's EPs Geography (2021), December (2022) and Duets (2023) are available on all streaming platforms.