# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madeleine-olnek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:22:52.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madeleine-olnek"
name: "Madeleine Olnek"
slug: "madeleine-olnek"
description: "Madeleine Olnek is an American independent film director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright. She has written 24 plays and three feature films, including Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, The Foxy Merkins, and Wild Nights with Emily. Her feature films have been described as \"madcap comedies with absurdist leanings\" and are all centered around LGBTQ characters."
tagline: "American playwright and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madeleine_Olnek_(2014).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.78
  momentum:             0.5235602094240837
  historical:           5.273902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2112342/"
    handle:    "nm2112342"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Olnek"
    title: "Madeleine Olnek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "مادلين اولنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Olnek"
    title: "Madeleine Olnek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Olnek"
    title: "Madeleine Olnek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "میڈلین اولنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61436749"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037989"
    title: "Madeleine Olnek"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump