Madeline Maxine Roman was awarded a 2026 National Dance Project Production Grant to create and tour her show The Viagra Ballet.

Madeline Maxine Roman is the inaugural recipient of the Creative Capital State of the Art Prize for Maryland.

“As the dancers share weight, rustle, tussle, and wrap around one another on the turf, I am transported to the rural countryside where the two are safe to be together and live in their full queerness.”

“Tooth and Claw was conceptually rich and ambitious in the breath of ideas in which it grounded itself.”

“Madeline Maxine Gorman’s timely Artificial Eden was a searing comment on how pervasive social media and mobile devices affect human behavior.”

“The choreographer is leading dual lives including one that creates equitable opportunities for dancers.”

“Veritas, a multimedia dance performance about searching for truth within American mass media, political rhetoric, and misinformation—and the technology that fuels and distorts each of those areas.”

“Navigating the dance world as a queer, disabled and neurodivergent creative, she incorporates material from her intersectional identities into her intellectually probing, politically minded and personally revelatory works.”

“She’s confident, well-spoken and passionate, as is the powerful, multi-disciplinary piece that follows. But this is no seasoned director or producer. She’s Madeline Maxine Gorman ’19, an undergraduate student at Towson University, just weeks from graduation.”

“Madeline Gorman put together an excellent piece that opened my eyes and my heart to those affected by addiction.”