Dramaturgy

Mary is an experienced dramaturg and script reader, specialising in new drama development. She is passionate about working with writers, directors and artists to clarify and refine their ideas at any stage of their development – whether it’s acting as a sounding board to test out early thoughts, reading a draft of a script and offering feedback, or attending rehearsals and giving notes to the production team. Mary is also a skilled researcher and script editor and can assist with developing conceptual ideas, background research, or giving talks to the company on specific subjects.

Mary’s approach is always artist-led; she never tries to impose her own ideas on what she feels the project should be. Instead, she actively listens to each individual to discern what they are trying to say through their work and centres her support around the artist’s own aims and vision for the piece. Mary is flexible in her approach and will adapt to suit the needs of the project. She is particularly passionate about new writing and musicals but is equally excited by classical and early modern plays and adaptations.

Mary studied dramaturgy with Dr Katalin Trencsényi on the MA in Text and Performance course at RADA and Birkbeck College. She was offered a literary internship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, USA, in 2017 where she learned from dramaturgs Anne G. Morgan and Carrie Chapter especially. Mary returned to the US in 2019 to attend the New Play Dramaturgy Intensive at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., and she had the privilege of shadowing lead dramaturg Mark Bly for a week, alongside assisting dramaturg Amanda Watkins on a new play (53% Of by Steph Del Rosso). She has been a member of the Dramaturgs’ Network since 2018.