Margaret McFadden is a Boston-based director, actor, and theater educator with a career spanning professional theatre, arts education, and program development. Margaret is the recent Founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Hive Theatre Company, where she produces contemporary theater with an emphasis on engaging teen and young adult audiences. Currently at The Hive, Margaret is producing and directing The Wolves by Sarah Delappe, which will be performed at Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatres next fall. She has also worked and performed with numerous respected theatres across the Greater Boston area, including Reagle Music Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Marblehead Little Theater, Boston Children’s Theater, and others.

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Margaret began her undergraduate studies as a BFA Musical Theater major at Boston Conservatory at Berklee before shifting her focus toward education and directing. She holds a degree in Theater Arts from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and a Master’s Degree in Theater Education from Emerson College. She is also a licensed Massachusetts K–12 Theater Educator.

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Margaret has taught and directed shows in a wide range of educational settings throughout Massachusetts, bringing high-quality theater training to students of all ages. She currently serves as a Director and Musical Theater Teacher at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts Summer Theater Intensive, where she was part of a small artistic team that revived the summer program post-pandemic. She also directed Walnut Hill’s recent winter mainstage production of Clue. Previously, Margaret taught, choreographed and directed at The Rivers School & Conservatory, Schechter Day School, and The Fay School, where she developed the curriculum for a new theater program from the ground up. She is also a Standardized Patient for New England Clinical Skills Consulting where she portrays different patient roles to support medical students at Tufts, Harvard, and Boston University in practicing their clinical skills. 

 

Her work extends beyond Massachusetts with notable contributions in Southeast Michigan through organizations such as JumpStart Theatre Detroit, Spinning Dot Theatre Company, Neutral Zone, and Crescendo Detroit. As part of her work with the University of Michigan’s Office of Outreach and Engagement, Margaret helped launch musical theater productions in three Detroit public schools that previously had no theater programs.

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