Entry 6 - I Killed My Last Houseplant, by Madison Fiedler

Madison Fiedler (@madison.fiedler) is a Brooklyn-based, Asheville-raised playwright and short story writer. She graduated in 2019 from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Theatre and English, and has since moved to New York, where she is represented by A3 Artists Agency. She aims to tell stories that show the world as it is now and ones that show the world as it could be: worldbuilding and critical reckoning in equal measure.

This is a tiny, impossible play about the banalities of survival, about needing some(one/thing) vs. being accustomed to it. It was written in quarantine in the earliest hours of the morning, as the new silence of Crown Heights has started keeping me up all night. Stuck in this tiny apartment at the epicenter of the outbreak in the US, I’m thinking about what makes me feel safe and what makes me feel scared, and the nearness of those things, and those show up in this piece as well. 

For more on Madison visit www.madisonfiedler.net