Live online: February 19-20, 2021
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Madeira is bringing Revisit Day to you!
We have planned several live sessions where you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about community life, the... Read More
Each year, Madeira participates in the English-Speaking Union (ESU) National Shakespeare Competition. Students first compete at a school-level competition... Read More
Showtimes:
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for... Read More
Madeira students Michelle Zheng ’20 and Victoria Yu ’22 have received 2020 Regional Scholastic Arts Awards. Michelle received a Silver Award her piece... Read More
Whether you want to sing or dance in a musical, prepare your portfolio for art school, throw ceramic pots, dance ballet or hip hop, learn viola, or vie... Read More
The Halloween 2019 issue of Madeira' student newspaper, The Spectator, is now available
Senior Angela He presented her final piano performance in a solo recital of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Ravel this week.
Her riveting performance... Read More
For Sophie Fouladi being a day student at Madeira offers her a great opportunity.
“Being a day student at a boarding school is interesting to say the... Read More
Chapin Brown has been accepted to attend the International Performing Arts Institute (IPAI) in Kiefersfelden, Germany this summer. Chapin has the distinguished... Read More
Each spring, The Nora School sponsors a photography festival open to students in grades 6 through 12 from a wide variety of public, private, home, and... Read More
The 2018 issue of GATE is now available! The new issue was presented to the community after the Dance/GATE All School Meeting on March 15. Madeira Dance... Read More
Friends and family packed the auditorium in late February for a fun-filled viewing of the 2018 Madeira winter musical, The Addams Family.
A musical comedy... Read More
Allow us to introduce you to the new faces at Madeira (and a reintroduce a few familiar ones).
Carla Belsher joins the Madeira team this year in the Health... Read More
This spring, the Madeira Fashion Club published their first fashion magazine. Club members, CiCi Wu and Monica Shen were the founders and publishers of... Read More
As the year comes to a close, the Advance Photography class presented their final projects using a variety of techniques learned throughout module 7 and... Read More
Congratulations to Sasha Alexander ‘17, Briana Harrington ‘17, Millenah Nascimento ’17 and Grace Ye ’18 for their Cappies Award nomination in the category... Read More
At the close of MadeiraED this year, the 2017 edition of GATE was presented. Madeira Dance and Madeira Select performed several numbers as students read... Read More
After several impressive performances at SpringFest, The Madeira Dance program kept their training going with guest instruction by Victor Adebusola, a... Read More
SpringFest is an annual event in which the visual, performing, and musical arts are celebrated. This year the students excelled in every routine, song... Read More
Sophomore Julia Skinner-Grant competed in the 2017 English-Speaking Union Washington D. C. Branch Shakespeare Competition at the Lansburgh Theatre downtown... Read More
The winter issue of The Spectator, is now available. The paper features wide-ranging articles and opinion pieces from a number of Madeira writers.
... Read MoreThe 2017 Madeira School Film Festival is now accepting submissions. The Festival is open to submissions from all high school students in the D.C. metro... Read More
Review by Victoria Akagha '19
This February, Madeira put on a production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The musical is a twist... Read More
Madeira students in the Winter Musical, Into the Woods, blazed new trails in musical theater under the guidance of Resident Artist, Mary Sugar. Ms. Sugar... Read More
Junior Lucy Li was recently named to the All-District Band through a competitive audition with students from Arlington, Fairfax Schools, Chantilly, Herndon... Read More
On Friday, January 13, the Madeira Chamber Orchestra went to the Kennedy Center for a tour, and a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra. Their tour... Read More
Nandi Ndoro ’19 was named a runner-up in the second annual Student Review Contest organized by The New York Times. Her article, Black Girl Lemonade, originally... Read More
In October, several students from Select Dance, Madeira’s advanced dance group, attended master classes with the Washington Area Independent School Dance... Read More
The orientation edition of the student newspaper hit the stands on September 1.
For the students who want to try something new this year, or return to a familiar community of artistic challenge and enjoyment, the Arts Department offers... Read More
Effective for school year 2016-2017, Madeira will be managing its Dance curriculum in-house, under the direction of Ms. Michelle Sarson. For our students... Read More
A big congratulations to Faith Slaughter ‘16, who is nominated for a Cappies award in the category of Female Vocalist for her role as Lilli Vanessi in... Read More
On May 7, 2016 the Madeira Slam Poetry Team, made up of Gaelyn Smith ‘16, Mona Hagmagid ‘16, Elfrieda Nwabunnia ‘17, and Mae Hunt ’17, won first place... Read More
On April 29, the last day of Module 6, students, faculty and staff participated in the second annual MadeiraED Day. With the theme “Passion Projects,”... Read More
After taking a summer film making program in New York City, Victoria Garcia ’17 was inspired to create a video that would bring awareness about the current... Read More
Four Madeira art students juried in the 2016 Best of Independent School’s Art Competition sponsored by the Landon School in Bethesda, MD. Since 2006, Landon... Read More
This week the Studio III - Sculpture class completed a Wind Spinners project and placed them out on the lawn in front of the art studio for the community... Read More
Emily Hamilton ’17, Sabrina Ni and Fay Zhang ’17, private music students of Deborah Morris, were recently recognized for their music achievements in The... Read More
On Monday, February 29, local Master Artist Mrs. Ellen Cornett came to impart her wisdom and experience with charcoal drawing in the Studio 1 - Drawing... Read More
The Madeira Arts production of Kiss Me, Kate was a high-spirited success! Kiss Me, Kate is a fun 1940s musical written by Samuel and Bella Spewack, with... Read More
Madeira's dedicated students and faculty are working very hard to produce a crowd-pleasing rendition of Kiss Me, Kate. Written in the 1940's, Kiss Me,... Read More
On February 4th, students were invited to be an audience for the first Advanced Acting Showcase. Students from the Advanced Acting class created original... Read More
On Wednesday, November 11, two members of the Madeira Slam Team, Mona Hagmagid '16 and Gaelyn Smith '16, competed in the NOVA Invitational Slam Competition... Read More
In Ms. Linda Northrup’s class, students are not told to put away their phones as they are in other classes. During the five-week Phone Photo Imaging class... Read More
Friends and family packed the Chapel Auditorium for an end of October viewing of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Taking place in turn of the century... Read More
Madeira Chamber Orchestra member Lucy Li '18, won second place in the senior woodwind division of the Asian American Music Society Competition. Lucy, a... Read More
Faculty in the Science and Arts Departments presented in multiple topics at the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (NCGS) Conference “From STEM to STEAM... Read More
Did you know that an amazing group of professional musicians come to Madeira's campus every week to teach students in piano, voice, strings, flute, guitar... Read More
Madeira Advanced Film class students organized an impressive, fourth annual Madeira School Film Festival on Saturday May 15, 2015.
A student committee... Read More
A big congratulations to Jeeho Ha ’17, who is nominated for a Cappies award in the category of Comic Actress in a Play for her role as Trinculo in our... Read More
At the All School Meeting, April 10, selections of poetry, along with photography and artwork from the 2015 edition of GATE were presented at the All School... Read More
Springfest is an annual event in which the visual, performing, and musical arts are celebrated. Both visual and performing arts were on full display at... Read More
The 2015 festival will be held May 15 and will celebrate films created by Madeira students and community. The deadline for film submissions is May 1, 2015... Read More
Support student directors, designers, and actors in the annual One Acts festival. The festival features short plays students have produced in the Advanced... Read More
Madeline Ahern '15 was awarded her third consecutive "Superior" rating at the National Federation of Music Teachers Festival on March 29, 2015. She will... Read More
On March 13, the last day of Module 5, students, faculty, and staff participated in the first all-school EduCase Day. The day involved over 75 different... Read More
Madeira’s winter musical production of Anything Goes, set aboard an ocean liner in the 1930s with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, was a rousing success... Read More
Escape the everyday on a trans-Atlantic cruise. With top-notch lounge singers, wealthy heiresses, and second-rate mobsters on the loose, you’re never sure... Read More
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 Madeira’s slam team including Zharia O’Neal ’15, Mona Hagmagid ’16, Gaelyn Smith, Elfrieda Nwabunnia ’17, Katie Barack ’15... Read More
The Madeira dance program, directed by Michelle Sarson, hosted CityDance guest Master Teacher, Resident Artist and renowned choreographer, Jason Garcia... Read More
“Last Days in Vietnam” was produced and directed by Rory Kennedy, Madeira class of 1987. The film, which has been nominated for an Academy Award ® for... Read More
In Ms. Taylor’s module on probability (a STEAM course), some students took on the challenge of using a music composition website that also involved a probability... Read More
On November 5, 2014, the Advanced and AP Studio Art students made the short trip to the National Gallery of Art in our nation’s capital to view one of... Read More
Shakespeare’s Tempest begins with the illusion of a shipwreck, but there was no disaster to plague Madeira’s visually beautiful and dynamically staged... Read More
Set your sails for excitement on an island of fairies and monsters October 30 and November 1. Here lives Prospera, an unjustly exiled Duchess, and her... Read More
During the last week of Module 1, the Introduction to Computer Programming class invited the Madeira community to the computer lab to test their final... Read More
Advanced Film class students organized a fantastic third annual Madeira School Film Festival on Saturday May 3, 2014. The program featured door prizes... Read More
Linda Yang ’15 has been selected to attend the High School Solo Pianist division of Westminster Choir College - Rider University pre-college program, in... Read More
Congratulations to juniors Griffin Ball and Julia Mandel for being selected as finalists for the Best of the Independent School’s Art Competition. Their... Read More
The Advanced Theatre Production class held the 2014 One Acts Festival on April 10-11. The festival was originally part of the Stage Directing class for... Read More
For the 35th annual Shakespeare Festival, the English Department chose the most well-known of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet. Part way into reading... Read More
Get ready for the third annual Madeira School Film Festival on May 3, 2014 beginning at 7:00 p.m.
This year, the festival will feature Madeira work exclusively... Read More
The All School Meeting on March 7, 2014 showcased Madeira’s Chamber Orchestra with a full program of pieces performed by the full orchestra, the string... Read More
Madeira Arts’ production of Footloose was a rousing success! Please join us in congratulating all of the players, from the large cast of actors, singers... Read More
Film producer Tai Burkholder '95, Madeira class of 1995, visited the Film Production class on January 10. Students enjoyed learning about Ms. Burkholder... Read More
Ms. Sokolov's Senior English class "Emily and Friends" performed one-woman shows in Main Living Room today...
Students, parents, and friends packed the Chapel/Auditorium over the first weekend in November for a spectacular production of “Arsenic and Old Lace,”... Read More
Students in Advanced Studio Art class will unveil murals for a community art project at the Mosaic shopping district in Fairfax, VA on November 22, 2013... Read More
You’ll be thoroughly entertained by the wit and talented acting of the Madeira cast in the farcical comedy, “Arsenic and Old Lace.” The play is set in... Read More
With the support of the PINK Award, established by Katherine Kies ’07, Courtney Jefferies ’13 spent her summer at the Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive in New... Read More
After two weeks of touring throughout Virginia, the Traveling Players Ensemble returns home to perform Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Madeira... Read More
A photo by Likando Kumoyo ’13 was chosen for Exposure 2013, an international photography competition. Likando’s photo was selected for a digital projection... Read More
In just its second year, The Madeira School Film Festival is seeing tremendous growth. This year, close to 200 people came to the festival’s screenings... Read More
Madeira welcomed the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) to campus for a special two-day visit during which the company performed and instructed a master... Read More
Senior Courtney Jefferies and Junior Gabby Bullard have been accepted to the Summer Intensive Program at The Ailey School in New York City. The six-week... Read More
January 31, 2013 the campus enjoyed a musical line-up full of variety – both instruments and musical styles – at the private music instruction soiree in... Read More
Madeira Arts Council's annual trip to New York City was a great day-long adventure for 50 Madeira students and faculty on Saturday, January 19, 2013. Students... Read More
The National Council of Teachers of English awarded The Madeira School 2012 literary magazine, Gate, a rating of “excellent.” NCTE’s program to recognize... Read More
The Madeira School is proud to introduce its winter musical, The Wizard of Oz. This musical follows Dorothy Gale in her journey home after waking up in... Read More
Sweet Ti, a cappella ensemble, performed for the McLean chapter of The American Association of University Women (AAUW) at their holiday luncheon in December... Read More
Over the weekend of December 7, Nadia Nobrega ’14 danced at the Kennedy Center with Ballet West in their production of The Nutcracker. In September, the... Read More
On Friday, December 14, Madeira's Arts Department showcased the varied talents of our students. From Orchestra to Glee Club, Madeira Dance and the acapella... Read More
Madeira students in Arts Department classes and activities will perform for the community in the annual Winterfest celebration on Friday, December 14 at... Read More
On Saturday, November 10, 2012, eight visual arts students took advantage of the beautiful warm afternoon to explore the Corcoran Gallery. They were entertained... Read More
Performing Arts put on a very successful production of The Bourgeois Gentlewoman for their fall play. While the performance dates had to be moved because... Read More
Sam McClain’13 won Honorable Mention at the FotoweekDC Youth Competition. Her photo featuring a crowd in afternoon sunlight won in the people category... Read More
The Bourgeois Gentlewoman, adapted from Moliere’s play, is a 17th Century French farce which pokes fun at the ridiculous business as social climber. Madame... Read More
Linda Yang ’15 completed an extensive music performance exam in the spring of 2012 for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music based in London... Read More
Saturday, September 8, Su Ji Kim received a second place award for her outstanding artwork, titled Le Vol, in the “Express Yourself!” teen art show. Mr... Read More
Recent graduate, June Schreiner ’12, has been featured in the Washington Post once again. On July 18th, the newspaper posted an online article in which... Read More
Eight Madeira students and two faculty headed to London Friday, June 1. Their week has been filled with theater performances at the West End, a Shakespeare... Read More
Madeira's Slam Poetry team won 2nd place in the Louder than a Bomb competition held at George Washington University Saturday, June 2! The team, Rachel... Read More
Tuesday, May 22, Susan Lee '12 and Kelsye Little '13 performed at the Kennedy Center with the DC Youth Orchestra. It was a memorable performance, the orchestra... Read More
Congratulations to Gabby Bullard ’14, who was nominated for a Cappie Award for her role as Seaweed in Hairspray! The nomination was in the category of... Read More
The final installation of Susan Lee's '12 independent art project was installed today. The sculpture called "The Fountain of Youth and Wild Reveler" is... Read More