Madeleine George is a playwright, fiction writer, and teacher.

Her plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, About Face Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, The Playwrights' Center/Guthrie Theater, and Playwrights Horizons, among other places. She collaborated with LightBox on the multimedia play MILK-N-HONEY, about democracy and appetite in America, which ran at 3LD in New York. Support includes a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, a Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship, and the Jane Chambers Award. Madeleine is a 2009-2010 Lark Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow and an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and she is a founding member of the OBIE-Award-winning playwrights' collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.).

For many years Madeleine taught writing at New York University. She has also taught writing, in various forms, at Bard College, Barnard College, SUNY Purchase, the University of Rochester, a half-dozen New York City public schools, and a variety of correctional and alternative-to-incarceration facilities, including Queensboro Correctional Facility, the Office of the Brooklyn DA, the Women's Prison Association, and Island Academy on Riker's Island. She is currently site director of a college program at a prison for women in Manhattan.

Madeleine grew up in Western Massachusetts and now lives in New York City.