Quotes by Patricia Ryan Madson

Patricia Ryan Madson is an American actress, author, and educator renowned for her contributions to improvisational theater and education. She began her academic career in 1969 as an assistant professor of drama at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. In 1977, she joined Stanford University, leading the undergraduate acting program and later founding the Stanford Improvisors in 1991, establishing a formal improvisation curriculum.

Throughout her tenure at Stanford, which lasted until 2005, Madson was recognized for her innovative teaching methods, receiving the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Innovation in Undergraduate Education in 1998. She also initiated "The Creativity Initiative," an interdisciplinary alliance of faculty dedicated to the belief that creativity can be taught.