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
Offering 3- and 6- Month Matches
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…
Maddy Brown,
Associate Collaborator
Offering the 3-Month Match
Maddy Brown (she/her) is a Chicago-based dramaturg and actor. She specializes in new play dramaturgy and is the Assistant Literary Manager at Avalanche Theatre, a company devoted to developing new plays by Chicago playwrights. She holds a BFA in drama from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts…
Juliet Chia,
Creative Collaborator
Offering 6- and 12- Month Matches
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
Offering 6- and 12-Month Matches
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 3-Month 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…
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
Offering 3- and 6-Month Matches
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 3-Month 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…
Maddie Williams,
Associate Collaborator
Offering the 3-Month 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…