hello! i’m mads daily. i’m an artist and actor living in brooklyn.

I moved to New York from Milwaukee, WI, where I grew up running solo spy operations on my block, playing Barbie Reality Show with my babysitter, and forming secret societies behind garages with my neighborhood friends. I was also in school. The best parts of my week were when I got to go to rehearsal or class at the children’s theater academy downtown. That’s where I fell in love for the first time.

NYU brought me to the city, where I spent time in conservatory training at Stella Adler. During a gap year, I was in the Core at HB Studio. When I returned to NYU the next year, I continued studio training at Adler and focused my liberal arts studies on art history and poetics.

Since finishing university, I’ve been acting in plays, developing projects with friends & fellow artists, making mixed media pieces, and seeing lots of good theater (e.g. Outrage—NYU Grad Acting, Oh, Mary—Broadway, Falcon Girls—Yale Rep, Other People’s Dead Dads—Off-off Broadway). What a privilege to be creating/exploring/connecting/reaching/loving at this very moment in time.

WHAT the f*ck am i doing?

• 2025 - working on an EP…

• May 2025 - I’ll be performing in Hanna Novak’s short play Trivia at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood Brunch Plays Sunday, May 4th.

• April 2025 - I played Brutus in Nocturne Theatre’s production of Coriolanus at dixon place.

• January 2025 - Starred in AdCouncil Naloxone PSA, “It’s Gotta Be You.”

• December 2024 - I played Jackie in “Lottie Baby,” a coming-of-age short film (proof-of-concept for a feature!) written and directed by Bella Ray Rosales. Info on screening coming soon! @lottiebabyfilm

• Oct/Nov/Dec 2024 - I was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship Acting Company working on Nina Ki’s “biomythical play collage” OriGen Story. Presentations in December.

• September 2024 - Originated the role of Cornelia in Aidan La Poche’s Daughters of the Ruling Class at Silencio NYC.

• July 2024 - I played Balthazar in Sketchbook Theatre’s site-specific Romeo+Juliet. Performances at Tydeman Farm in Germantown, NY on July 18-21.

• Since June 2024 I’ve been a creative producer and the director of photography for Veer Arya’s brand new original webseries, “Tomorrow, Day After.” We will wrap shooting in October! Follow @tomorrowdayaftershow on Instagram and TikTok to keep up with the show!

• In my final semester at NYU, I played Maureen Johnson in Tisch Drama Stage’s production of RENT!

• I completed an experimental short documentary I’ve been working on. You can watch it here: “recess, or RUNNING AWAY.”