Services and Pricing

All projects can be done at sliding-scale rates

  • First Read and Notes

    This level is perfect for works that are 110 pages or under. I will provide you with written notes on your play or screenplay

  • Play Consultations

    This level is for scripts longer than 110 pages. I will provide you with written notes as well as your choice of a phone or video call session

  • Production Dramaturgy

    A production dramaturg is incredibly beneficial to a production. Production dramaturgs provide feedback to the playwrights, directors, designers, and producers, may work as context guides for directors and actors, write program notes, host pre/post-performance discussions with audiences, and more

  • Other ideas? Let’s talk!

    What can a dramaturg do for you and your project? According to LMDA.org (Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America), here are just a few ideas:

    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
    Help develop the mission
    Help plan the season
    Help look for scripts

    NEW PLAYS
    Solicit scripts from writers and agents
    Read and evaluate new scripts
    Track and file those scripts
    Write kindly letters to writers whose scripts we won’t be producing
    Negotiate with agents
    Prepare adaptations and translations
    Commission new work
    Organize the in-house play reading program
    Organize the new play reading program for subscribers
    Support those writers whose vision captures our
    minds and hearts

     ARTS IN EDUCATION
    Establish relationships with local educators
    Prepare study guides
    Develop production web sites
    Write and edit program materials
    Plan and lead seminars and symposia

    ADVOCACY
    Affirm the function,
    Explore the practice, and
    Promote the profession of
    dramaturgy and literary management.
    Nourish the arts wherever we find them:
    in schools,
    in communities,
    and around the world

Image by Melissa Blackall: The T Party with Forum Theatre

Image by Melissa Blackall: The T Party with Forum Theatre

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Laura for many years, but our most recent production as director and dramaturg was exceptional. I feel quite blessed that Laura was a part of the production. The subject matter was quite sensitive and autobiographical and the playwright was new. Laura was able to gently guide the playwright to realizing an even stronger vision of the work. Laura’s literary experience and her overall outlook as a human being were such an asset to a production that needed to balance both art and real-world suffering. I would not hesitate to work with her again.
— TRS