Writing & Academia

Fiona is a writer who has worked in literary departments in New York and Washington, DC, where she provides literary and dramaturgical support for a variety of productions. She often reads, evaluates, and consults on script development and takes a balanced, thoughtful approach to season planning. She has also been a producer who relishes the opportunity to support artists. She writes essays about theater, and even sometimes writes things that resemble plays.  

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD from Stanford University in Theater and Performance Studies. Her current research interests revolve around contemporary theater and playwriting with a specific emphasis on DIY aesthetics, self-production, alternative theater scenes, and the re-emergence of the contemporary theater company and collective. Using her background in Marxist and Critical Theory, she hopes to use her research, intermixed with practice, to investigate collective-based producing models, with the intention of de-centering capital and bringing theater into direct conversation with the community.

Fiona graduated from Williams College in 2021 with a BA in Theatre and Political Science, with a concentration in Political Theory. Her thesis, “Teenage Girls and Femme Futurities: An Investigation into Coalition Building through Contemporary Feminist Theatre,” explored the growing trend of “teenage girl plays” in conjunction with utopian performance theory and political theories of coalition and community building, earning her honors in the theatre department.

Previously, she was the assistant to the head of theater at United Talent Agency, the Artistic Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, the Manager of the Emerging Playwrights Fund at Audible Theatre, and the Literary Intern at Studio Theatre. She has read scripts for Cherry Lane Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, Audible Theater, and Studio Theatre.