Madison Joy LeFever
Photographer • Arts Administrator • Theatre Maker
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness.” - August Wilson
Bellingham Story Hour, Odd Fellows Temple Room
Mia | Bellingham Bay
Loving & Loathing, A gallery | Creative Direction: Chlo Ordello (Pictured: Kobe Greenwalt, Cassidy Turner, and Chlo Ordello)
Enemy of The People, Archival for Western Washington University
Lizzy Mcalpine, Five Seconds Flat Tour, The Metro in Chicago, IL
Amber, Chuckanut
Ashley's Family | Bellingham, WA
Sabrina Carpenter, The Paramount in Seattle, WA
Under a weeping willow | Bellingham, WA
Budman, The Wild Buffalo
Jersey St. | DIY BELLINGHAM
Divine, A gallery | Pictured: Cassidy Turner
Love is love | Bellingham, WA
Alyssa Whorley rehearsing for WWU's The Storyteller directed by Kamarie Chapman
Jackie & Zoe | Bellingham, WA
Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers, The Wild Buffalo
Family Ties, an opera produced by Western Washington University
Press for The Storyteller, Western Washington University
Phobe Bridgers of boygenius, for The Gorge Ampitheatre
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Meet Madison!
“I tell stories—on stage, on the page, and through the lens. Every project is an invitation to feel, question, and connect.”
Madison Joy LeFever is a PNW-based photographer, theatre maker, arts administrator, and singer-songwriter.
She graduated from Western Washington University, where she obtained her BA in Theatre Production, concentrating in directing & playwriting. Assistant directing under professors & guest directors from across the nation, she is most fascinated with new works and in 2022, she and 3 other creatives regionally premiered Untethered, A new musical about adult queers and their messy dating lives. Untethered was a semi-finalist in the 2022 Eugene O’Neil Center National Musical Theatre Conference and won the 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 7 Musical Theatre Award. It has been featured in Cascadia Daily and The Front. You can learn more about her involvement here.
She ended her college career as an Irene Ryan nominee for her performance as Constance in Richmond & Maxwell’s Ride The Cyclone, directed by Ericka Mac. She is currently based in Washington State, writing a fat comedy-horror exploring anti-fat bias in a skinny epidemic, curating physical galleries of her photography, and making music!
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"Storytelling isn't just what I "do", It is who I am."
"Storytelling isn't just what I "do", It is who I am."
Recent Creative Projects
Director of Photography: Madison Joy LeFever
Creative Director: Chlo Ordello
In July of 2025, Chlo Ordello and I physically curated a gallery in collaboration with Wink Wink Boutique’s monthly artist feature titled “Loving & Loathing”. This immersive gallery captured all facets of infidelity. It was a personal project inspired by Chlo’s individual experience with infidelity and their need to make this very individual experience a communal one. Infidelity, betrayal, and deception exist beyond the confines of intimate relationships.
DIVINE
Lead Photographer & Creative Director 1: Madison LeFever
Creative Director 2 & Props Coordinator: Chlo Ordello
In 2022, I assistant-directed, led dramaturgical research, and composed music for what the Gods gave me by Eryn McVay— a piece interrogating themes like occultism, Lilith, and reclaiming divine feminine rage. The work, the research, and my own complicated feelings about autonomy during a creatively electric era of my life birthed DIVINE. This session felt full circle, a moment where I pulled from my education as a director and my evolving artistic voice.
The full gallery is set to be physically curated in 2026.
