Madelyn Sher is a dance and theater artist, choreographer, and native New Yorker. 

Madelyn's take on contemporary dance is influenced by her diverse background of formal training including modern, theater, butoh, Latin dance, house, ballet, and contact improvisation. Her choreography has been presented at Cosmic Cherry Festival at the Court Street Theater, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Queer Butoh Festival at The Brick Theater, Chilo's BK, Theater for the New City, SMUSH Gallery, MERDE at The Footlight, annex:art (New Mexico), Downtown Art, The Baumann, Triple 9 Festival, and Triskelion Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Croft Residency (Horton Bay, Michigan) and annex:art (San Fidel, New Mexico). Her short dance film, Looking Inwood, won her the Promising Filmmaker Award at CUNY Film Festival 2018. Madelyn holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College, where she danced in works by Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Duane Lee Holland, and Alexander Davis. In New York she has danced for REDi Dance Company, Amirov Dance Theater, Vangeline Theater, evan ray suzuki, Molly Gorin, Svea Schneider, Rina Espiritu, and others. She currently dances for Chloe London and Olive Prince and is setting a new work on students at her alma mater, CUNY Lehman College, in fall 2024. 

As an actor, Madelyn had her TV debut as "Amy" in ABC's "The Baker and the Beauty", which rose to popularity as the number one show on Netflix in spring 2021. She performs with the Bronx Arts Ensemble/Lehman Children's Theater Company, which brings classic fairytales with a modern spin to young Bronx audiences. She has studied improvisation at the People's Improv Theater, and with Amy Larimer of the Raving Jaynes. Madelyn enjoys creating and performing devised theater as part of a collective called Zoo City.

Madelyn is also an educator and administrator. She values arts and education organizations which inspire communities and new generations of art-makers and art-lovers. She produces Groundswell Series, an annual site-specific outdoor dance festival that brings dance into shared spaces in parks and playgrounds in Brooklyn, NY. Madelyn is an advisory board member of B. Wilson Foundation as well as REDi Dance Company, in which she is also a collaborating dancer. She also works as a program manager and teaching artist for REDi Dance's educational programs, the Dance Bridge Workshop and Junior Company. Madelyn has worked in New York City schools for several years, teaching and assisting dance, drama, and music classes.