hello! i’m mads daily. i’m an artist and actor living in brooklyn.

I moved to New York from Milwaukee, WI, where I grew up running solo spy operations around my suburban blocks, playing Barbie reality show with my babysitter, and forming secret societies with my neighborhood friends behind garages. I was also in school. The best parts of my week were when I got to go to rehearsal or class at the children’s theater academy downtown. That’s where I fell in love for the first time.

NYU brought me to the city, where I spent time in conservatory training at Stella Adler. During a gap year, I was in the Core at HB Studio. When I returned to NYU the next year, I continued studio training at Adler and focused my liberal arts studies on art history and poetics.

Since finishing university, I’ve been acting in plays, developing projects with friends & fellow artists, making mixed media pieces, and seeing lots of good theater (e.g. Outrage—NYU Grad Acting, Oh, Mary—Broadway, Falcon Girls—Yale Rep, We Live in Cairo—NYTW). What a privilege to be creating/exploring/connecting/reaching/loving at this very moment in time.

WHAT the f*ck am i doing?

• December 2024 - I played Jackie in “Lottie Baby,” a coming-of-age short film (proof-of-concept for a feature!) written and directed by Bella Ray Rosales. Info on screening coming soon! @lottiebabyfilm

• Oct/Nov/Dec 2024 - I was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship Acting Company working on Nina Ki’s “biomythical play collage” Origen Story. Presentations in December.

• September 2024 - Originated the role of Cornelia in Aidan La Poche’s Daughters of the Ruling Class at Silencio NYC.

• July 2024 - I played Balthazar in Sketchbook Theatre’s site-specific Romeo+Juliet. Performances at Tydeman Farm in Germantown, NY on July 18-21.

• Since June I’ve been a creative producer and the director of photography for Veer Arya’s brand new original webseries, “Tomorrow, Day After.” We will wrap shooting in October! Follow @tomorrowdayaftershow on Instagram and TikTok to keep up with the show!

• In my final semester at NYU, I played Maureen Johnson in Tisch Drama Stage’s production of RENT!

• I completed an experimental short documentary I’ve been working on. You can watch it here: “recess, or RUNNING AWAY.”

To get to know a little bit of me, here is a short list of things, people, & places that I love:

miniatures, sentimental daydreaming, Lake Michigan, writing (plays, songs, poetry), Adrianne Lenker, Sinéad O’Connor, Tony Kushner, Lucy Prebble, secondhand and vintage clothing, Gaspar Noé, Succession, Sara Cwynar, NYT games, Jane Schoenbrun, Edward Hopper, taking photographs, The Alchemist, my cats (Ringo & Stevie), doodling in the margins of my notebooks, collaging on my walls, Wes Anderson, my record collection, Yves Tanguy, making up silly little songs, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, tuna melt with extra capers, bagel and lox with extra capers, chicken piccata with extra capers, capers