Working on a new song for Run Bambi Run

Leading a pre-show conversation with a Yelp theater group

my Services

I’m available in-person or virtually to support your next theatrical endeavor, from idea-generation to production.

  • Reading a play-in-development and offering written initial feedback and an hour-long conversation.


    Price: $250

  • A broad range of services including consulting on projects, offering feedback on scripts, taking part in development retreats, serving as dramaturg on workshops of pieces in development, and more.


    Price: Dependent on project

  • Serving as production dramaturg on a full production.


    Price: Dependent on project

  • Researching, writing, and/or editing dramaturgical materials for a production. This can include actors packets, lobby displays, education materials, program articles, and more.


    Price: Dependent on project

  • I am available for a range of collaborative endeavors, including but not limited to: guest speaking or teaching, journalism and program article writing, audience facilitation events, and more.

    Price: Dependent on project

Leading a post-show conversation with playwright Ayad Akhtar

In workshop with playwright Catherine Trieschmann

“Deanie was such a central part of bringing my play into the world: encouraging the earliest seeds of my idea, helping me discover the play's correct structure and refine its themes, and providing the eyes, ears, and partnership I needed to help the play meet its ultimate potential. Deanie offers such a wonderful combination of insight, taste, and supportiveness that she makes cracking into a major rewrite a pleasure, because you know the play will be stronger on the other side of it.”

— Eleanor Burgess, playwright of The Niceties and Wife of a Salesman

“During my more than three decades of working in theater, few dramaturgs I’ve worked with have impressed me as much as Deanie. No matter the circumstances, Deanie remains diligent, meticulous, curious, responsive, enthusiastic, and flexible. She’s as superbly capable helping to wrestle the initial faltering steps of a brand new script as she is in development workshops, in rehearsal, or in support of a full production. And throughout—best of all—Deanie is never anything less than a total delight to work with.”

- Gavin Witt, freelance dramaturg, former Director of Dramaturgy/Associate Artistic Director, Baltimore Center Stage