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Madeleine Polak (she/her)  is a lover of emerging new theatre, name brand sharpies, iced oat lattes, and colour-coded spreadsheets. She’s a queer theatre maker & manager based in Vancouver, where she is in her fourth and final year of the UBC BFA Design and Production program. A firm believer in wearing multiple hats within the industry, Madeleine is active as both a stage manager and costume designer, as well as a fledgling director. 

Madeleine has been working in the UBC Costume Shop for three years,  where she currently holds an Undergraduate Academic Advisor position and has previously been an intern with The Arts Club Costume Department. She is also the current stage manager for the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, working with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. 

In her costume design work, Madeleine frequently marvels that her work allows her to spend her days playing professional dress up in the dark. Current design highlights include her costume design work for Orange Floor’s 2%, UBC Musical Theatre Troupe’s Theory of Relativity, UBC Theatre’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards and The Very Book Indeed.

As a stage manager, Madeleine sees well organised spreadsheets as their own artform. She has previously worked with Theatre Terrific on their 2024 Harvest production, Proximity and with local queer rock-band  Hot Dyke Party during their original performance run.