Kellie Madison

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Kellie Madison
Born
Kellie Ann Halihan [1]

Chicago, Illinois [2]
Occupations
  • Writer
  • producer
  • director
  • actress
Years active2000–present
Notable work Dear Mr. Gacy
Never Back Down: Revolt

Kellie Madison is an American writer, producer, director and actress. Her passion for film derives from the stories she wants to tell "that inspire, entertain and move people." [3] Additionally, she is best known for being the executive producer and screenwriter of the Canadian drama thriller, Dear Mr. Gacy . Her production company, Madison Films, is run by Madison herself and associate producer Sherrie Adams with a focus on the development and production of various media projects. [4]

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Career

Madison began her career as an actress having minor roles in several films, such as 2000's Under the Bus and 2001's The Rest of Your Life. [5] In 2002, Madison realized her desire to move beyond acting and began to write, produce, and eventually direct films. [6]

One of Madison's first ventures in screenwriting took place when she wrote the screenplay for the aforementioned Dear Mr. Gacy , adapted from the Jason Moss' book, The Last Victim . [7] Additionally, she claimed to have grown up down the street from John Wayne Gacy in Chicago, Illinois. [8] Bearing the same name as her screenplay, the film about the serial killer was developed and produced with the assistance of Clark Peterson, the executive producer of Monster . [9] Unfortunately, Moss—who Madison was in negotiations with regarding the film—committed suicide during production, leaving Madison to re-negotiate with his widow. [10]

Sometime during the mid-2000s, Madison discovered that one of her close friends had obsessive-compulsive disorder, which enticed her to learn more about it via Replay Rewind Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Jeff Bell. [11] Based on her growing interest for awareness of the disorder, Madison wrote the screenplay for Machine Man, a film about the struggles of OCD. [12] Her primary reason for writing the screenplay was to educate audiences on a topic that she feels has not been properly addressed with a goal of removing the stigma associated with it. [11] Producer and actor Craig James Pietrowiak (International Screenwriter Association) had similar interests in the topic and joined Madison to support the creation of the film. [13] A Kickstarter campaign was put in place to raise $225,000 and fund the film, but only $12,903 was donated and the effort was ultimately unsuccessful. [14] As of today, it is unclear what production stage Machine Man is in and if it is still in development.

In 2011, Madison became involved with the Tomorrow/Bokra production team as a co-producer for the Arabic charity single. [15] [16]

In 2013, Madison was a finalist in the Project Imaginat10n film contest in which contestants created shorts films based on a selection of crowdsourced photographs, all of which were judged by Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard. [17] Her submission for the contest was The Caul, a short film that Madison wrote and directed about two twins born in the caul who gain supernatural abilities. [18] During the same year, Madison signed with Zero Gravity Management just after she began to work on Hotel 33, a mystery about the 1953 events surrounding the Grand Hotel in Williamsport, PA that Nicolas Cage was rumoured to be attached to. [19] [20] Like Machine Man, the fate of Hotel 33 remains unclear.

More recently, Madison worked with Ohio-based Big River Studios where she took on both writing and directing responsibilities for 2015's The Tank, her feature directorial debut about a failed Mars simulation trip. [21] [22] The thriller is planned to be distributed by Open Road Films. [2]

In 2021, Madison directed Never Back Down: Revolt , the fourth installment in the Never Back Down franchise.

She is currently based in Los Angeles, California, where her production company, Madison Films, is established. [23]

Filmography

Short film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerActressRef.
2003NenuNoYesYesYes [24]
2004Rain TodayNoYesExecutiveYes [25]
2004Spoon BrotherNoYesNoNo [4]
2005FallingNoYesExecutiveYes [26]
2006UnderNoYesNoNo [4]
2008The Line UpNoYesNoNo
2008Box CastleNoYesNoNo
2009Slice of WaterYesYesYesNo [27]
2009Dogs of DrendonNoYesNoNo
2010Star StruckYesYesYesNo [28]
2010Bathtub PicnicYesYesYesNo [29]
2013The CaulYesYesYesNo [30]

Feature film

YearTitleDirectorWriterExecutive
Producer		Ref.
2010 Dear Mr. Gacy NoYesYes [7]
2015The TankYesYesNo [31]
2021 Never Back Down: Revolt YesNoNo [32]

Trailer

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerRef.
2011Machine ManYesYesYes [4] [13]

Other credits

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2007 Bratz: The Movie Production Marketer [4]
2007Alive N' Kickin'Line ProducerTV movie [33]
2011Tomorrow/BokraCo-producerMusic video [4] [16]
2011The Abolition of SexWriter [4] [23]
2011Hotel 33Writer [4] [34]

Acting credits

Film

Television

YearTitleEpisodeRef.
2006 Scrubs "My Buddy's Booty" [38]
Freddie "Mother of All Grandfathers" [39]

Video

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  2. 1 2 "SCREEN - MADISON Back In Midwest".
  3. ↑ "Machine Man - The Movie".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Madison Films - About". Madison Films. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Kellie Madison (Actress) at the Internet Movie Database". IMDb .
  6. ↑ "Madison Films - Home".
  7. 1 2 "Full cast and crew for Dear Mr. Gacy". IMDb .
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  28. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Star Struck". IMDb .
  29. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Bathtub Picnic". IMDb .
  30. ↑ "Full cast and crew for The Caul". IMDb .
  31. ↑ "Full cast and crew for The Tank". IMDb .
  32. ↑ "'Never Back Down: Revolt': Kellie Madison Directing For Mandalay, Wonder Street & SPWA". 11 November 2020.
  33. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Alive N' Kickin'". IMDb .
  34. ↑ "Hotel 33 at the Internet Movie Database". IMDb .
  35. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Under the Bus". IMDb .
  36. ↑ "Full cast and crew for The Rest of Your Life". IMDb .
  37. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Hale Bopp". IMDb .
  38. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Scrubs S05E11: My Buddy's Booty". IMDb .
  39. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Freddie S01E21: Mother of All Grandfathers". IMDb .
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