Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
directed by Sharifa Yasmin
American Stage Theatre Company
“Madeleine Russell does an excellent job of portraying an extremely dislikable character in Emily, an archetypical member of the fashionable Manhattan art scene who drips privilege while not only parroting the shallow mainstream talking points of so-called limousine liberals but fashioning them into a lifestyle and perhaps even an identity” — The Bradenton Times
“Russell conveys all of Emily’s complicated sympathies — her love for Isaac, her curiosity about Islam, her professional ambition, her blindness to how all these things are colliding — in a fluid, affecting performance.” — The Gabber
The Inferior Sex
by Jacqueline E. Lawton
directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo
Trinity Repertory Company
“Without exception, every actor in this ensemble knocks it out of the park…Russell is both charming and disarming as housefrou Madeleine” — Broadway World
“Madeleine Russell…brings down the house as Madeleine, the magazine's food editor who favors pastels and can't cook” — Westerly Sun
“Madeleine Russell plays food editor Madeleine, who writes a lovely recipe but can’t cook for beans. Madeleine is definitely meant to be the comic relief of the show, and Russell has the timing for it.” — WRPO
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
by Anne Washburn
directed by Molly Houlahan
Brown/ Trinity Rep
“The whole cast is baseline brilliant: they are intensely there in every moment, bringing deeply lived authentic reality in the first two acts and totally committed to the hallucinatory vision of the third…Jenny Nguyen Nelson offers us a stunning vision of Bart-as-iconic-hero, equally matched by Madeleine Russell's deliciously wicked Mr. Burns.” — Broadway World
Much Ado About Nothing (* At Dinner)
by William Shakespeare
directed by Melissa Lourie
The Flynn Space & Middlebury Town Hall Theater
”As Hero, Madeleine Russell lights up the stage, brimming with youth. She's affecting as the victim of cruelty, then humorous as a member of the watch.” — Seven Days
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
by Tom Stoppard
directed by Cheryl Faraone
Potomac Theatre Project, Atlantic Stage 2
”Just try not to giggle at Ophelia, ‘drowning’ just in time for a bouquet of flowers to whizz over a wall and bop her in the tum.” — TimeOut New York
The Possibilities
by Howard Barker
directed by Richard Romagnoli
Potomac Theatre Project, Atlantic Stage 2
”Madeleine Russell was hilarious as the unrepentant temptress flashing her ankles with intentional provocation…You can’t help but cheer her open flirtatious flouting of repression and rules.” — StageBiz