On a rural homestead in North Carolina, a group of grievers has formed a smaller, self-sustained world to live and work in. They slaughter pigs, celebrate birthdays, wait for the asparagus to mature. Seasons pass, gardens grow. The asparagus still isn't ready yet. THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE is a new play about the strange task of living as the left-behind.
Madison Fiedler is a playwright from Asheville, North Carolina. She lives in Brooklyn. Her plays include SPAY (produced by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble & American Lives Theatre; winner of the 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award; published and licensed with Concord Theatricals; Jeff Award & Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee; Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship runner-up; National Showcase of New Plays; Kilroys List), HOMOFERMENTERS OR, THE PARK SLOPE CO-OP PLAY (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest), and THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE (Atlantic Theater Company/tall poPpy, Bedlam; finalist: Weissberger Award, Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, The Civilians + Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute’s The Next Forever Initiative), SCREECH OWL (Studio Theatre), THE INCUBATORS (Westport Country Playhouse), and IF GOD CAME A CALLIN (Barter Theatre’s Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights).
Her work has also been supported by residencies, fellowships, & writers’ groups at Willapa Bay AiR, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2025 Walter E. Dakin Fellow), and The Playwrights Realm, where she is a 2025-2026 Writing Fellow.
Her debut short film FISHBOWL (directed by Isabel Perry & Adam Yates), a Vimeo Staff Pick, screened in 2024-2025 at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, Chicago Intl. Film Festival, Newfest (New York’s LGBTQIA+ Film Festival), Big Apple Film Festival, and Rooftop Films’ Summer Series.
This project was supported [in part] by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
A special thanks to the Town of Abingdon, Washington County, and the Virginia Tourism Corporation for their support.
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