Maddi Jane Römcke
Maddi Jane Römcke
Actor
Madeline Römcke is an award-winning independent Brisbane based theatre maker, producer, performance poet, and actor. Inspired to make bold, gutsy work that starts conversations and provides transformative experiences to all audiences, past creations include Maddie is the New Karen, Biting Tongues, DUMB. FAT. [SLUT] & Deal or Ordeal
Biography
Madeline Römcke is an independent Brisbane based theatre maker, producer, performance poet, and actor inspired to make bold, gutsy work that starts conversations and provides transformative experiences to all audiences. She has a broad range of skills and worked for many of the states performing arts companies, including shake & stir, Circa, Cluster Arts, Belloo Creative and Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival. Commissioned by Belloo Creative under their Mentorship program, she wrote her new play Biting Tongues (2020). DUMB. FAT. [SLUT], written alongside Kate Fester, was presented in La Boite Theatre at FAST 2018 and explored classism and fat-phobia in Australia. Her first play, Deal or Ordeal, won an Anywhere Theatre Festival award in 2016 - the same year she was a Queensland Finalist at the Australian Poetry Slam. Her most recent play, Maddie is the New Karen, was written alongside Madeleine Border and premiered at Wynnum Fringe Festival.
Ad Astra Plays
Upcoming Plays
Past Plays
Other Theatre
2023 – Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Various
2022 – Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Various
2021 – Maddie is the New Karen, Wynnum Fringe (Independent), Co Creator & Actor - Various
2021 – Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Various
2020 – Macbeth, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Lady Macbeth & Various
2019 – Gut Girls, Underground Theatre, Actor – Mary
2019 – Romeo & Juliet, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Juliet, Tybalt
2019 – Great Shakes, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Various
2019 – Chapter 3, shake & stir theatre co, Actor, Various
2018 – Dumb. Fat. [SLUT], FAST, Writer
2018 – It’s About Time, shake & stir theatre co, Actor & Writer – Various
2017 – 10 to 3, Festival of Australian Student Theatre, Actor – Sarah
2017 – Deal or Ordeal, Independent, Co Creator & Actor – Host
2017 – Terrortorial, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Sophie, Mikaela
2017 – The Boy, The Bear, The Baron & The Bard, shake & stir theatre co, Actor – Various
2016 – Rewind, shake & stir theatre co, Actor - Various
2015 – Thrice Upon a Time, shake & stir theatre co, Actor - Various
2015 – That Face, Underground Theatre Company, Actor – Mia
2014 – Ruin, Anywhere Theatre Festival, Actor – Jane
2013 – Machinal, Sean Edgecomb, Actor – Helen
2012 – Time for Plan Bee, Royal Holloway Drama, Actor - Various
2012 – Unspeakable Acts of Privacy
Training
2019, Voice Training, Marcus Oborn
2018, Movement Workshop: Dynamic Presence, Noriaki Okubu, Caroline Dunphy
2016, Acting Training, Gareth Harris
2013, Bachelor of Arts, Double Major Drama, Various tutors
2012, Royal Holloway University of London, Science in Performance, Helen Nicholson
2011, MET film school, Acting for Film
Representation
Freelance
Reviews
The entirety of the cast worked so well as a cohesive collective, it is difficult to describe their performances individually. Each were committed to their character, which had clearly been researched and developed into well-rounded and thought out personalities, and interacted with one another with the familiarity one would expect from members of a sports team. Each brought a powerful intensity, light and shade and above all, energy, to their performance. Each actor was faultless in their execution of dialogue and blocking contributing to the overall professionalism of the show.
Yasmin Elahi - Queensland Stage Critics | Read Full Review Here
“#00, Maddi Jane Romcke moves from a nervy and anxious girl who keeps to herself, to a serious team player”
Beth Keehn - Stage Whispers | Read Full Review Here
“The fact that there is a show like this that was written by these two incredibly talented young writers, and that the show is near sold out, shows the relevance of this voice in our society today.”
Ofa Fanaika - NothingEverHappensinBrisbane | Read full review
Awards
2017 – Australian Poetry Slam – QLD Finalist
2017 – Anywhere Theatre Festival – Anywhere Award
2014 – JMC – Martini Award for Best Female Actor