Dramaturg Directory
Our full list of collaborators can be found below. If you are interested in working with a Dramaturg outside of our programming, please email us at thedigitaldramaturgs@gmail.com.
Emma Bilderback,
Guiding Collaborator
Emma Bilderback is a freelance theatre artist based in New Jersey. She has made theatre in New York, Los Angeles, Netherlands, South Africa, and beyond. Professional affiliations include the Digital Development Project, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Ring of Keys, and Actors’ Equity…
Juliet Chia,
Creative Collaborator
Juliet has over 25 years of international performance-making experience spanning lighting design, production management, creative producing and dramaturgy. Currently based in Singapore, she freelances as a dramaturg and leadership coach for creative professionals…
Suzi Elnaggar,
Guiding Collaborator
Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian American dramaturg, performance scholar, and artist. A 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow, she is the founder of the Digital Development Project and Backstitch Story Arts. She has read scripts for PlayPenn, Playwright’s Center, Rattlestick’s Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, SHE-LA, and Sparkfest, among many others…
Maren Flessen,
Associate Collaborator
Offering the Fall Match
Maren Flessen (she/they) is a Chicago-based dramaturg & multi-hyphenate. Recent collaborations include Brighter Futures (Paramount Theatre), Common Ground (Paramount School for the Arts) and Feedback (La MaMa Theatre, NYC), as well as submission evaluation for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Playwrights Center among others. They hold a BA from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, an avid mood crafter, and are a proud member of LMDA…
Giselle Garcia, Creative Collaborator
Offering the Fall Match
Giselle Garcia (she/her) is a UK-based Filipino British dramaturg, researcher, and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dramaturgy and Performance Studies at the London College of Music (University of West London) and is currently studying psychotherapy to deepen her dramaturgical practice in developing personal stories. Her expertise focuses heavily on spatial dramaturgy, specializing in contemporary Filipino theater and performance…
Jihye Kim,
Creative Collaborator
Jihye is a freelance dramaturg and a deviser based in Seoul. Her interest and specialty lie in new play development, ensemble-devising, site-specific immersive works, solo performance and literary translation (Korean to English). Jihye has worked for Great Plains Theatre Common’s New Play Conference in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and she is a current season researcher at Doosan Art Center in Seoul…
Kemi King,
Guiding Collaborator
Kemi King (she/her) is a writer, director, dramaturg, producer. She is the Artistic Director of Yikes Co, and executive Producer with the Digital Development Project. Working within her practice, Theatre of Critical Care, Kemi emphasizes relation and exploration in her work…
Karina Patel,
Associate Collaborator
Offering the Fall Match
Karina Patel is a dramaturg and director of new work born in London, based in Chicago and raised everywhere else. She currently serves as the Literary Associate at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the New Works Manager at Jackalope Theatre Company. Most recently she directed the United States premiere of DUMMY IN DIASPORA by Esho Rasho at Jackalope Theatre, and the world premiere of HANNAH AND HALMONI SAVE THE WORLD by Juliet Kang Huneke at Filament Theatre…
Janice Poon,
Creative Collaborator
Offering the Fall Match
Janice Poon is the Discipline Leader of both Playwriting and Dramaturgy major programmes. She inaugurates, develops and teaches both the MFA and BFA major programmes in Dramaturgy at the The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Janice graduated from the MFA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Her research interests include new dramaturgy of contemporary theatre making, transdisciplinary and transcultural art making, digital theatre in cyberspace, new play development and performance text…
Maddie Williams,
Associate Collaborator
Offering the Fall Match
Madison Mae Williams (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and scholar based in the California Central Coast area. Born and raised on Cape Cod, she received her PhD in Theatre and Drama from UC San Diego, and BA concentrating in musical theatre, poetry, and Africana studies from Hampshire College. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo…