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SHORT VERSION:
Ally Varitek is a dramaturg, script reader, and arts administrator currently based outside of Atlanta, GA. With a background in choir, sports, and theatre performance, she knits all sides of her performance past, movement methods, introverted disposition, and current literary affinity in the development of new works. Ally has a wide and varied interest in all theatrical works and promises to approach your writing with an open heart and curious mind. Affiliate dramaturg with both DDP and MusicalWriters.com. Area(s) of specialty: Dramaturgy for plays with music, musical theatre, & new work development. Can read Spanish at an intermediate level and Dutch at a beginner's level. Topics of Specialty: melancholy & the bittersweet, poet-playwrights, introverted main characters, femme-centric stories, sports plays, & literary adaptations. |
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Ally Varitek (she/her) is an emerging dramaturg, arts administrator, wordsmith, and hobby archivist currently based outside of Atlanta, Georgia. With a background in choir, sports, and theatre performance, she knits all sides of her performance past, movement methods, introverted disposition, and current literary affinity most often in the development of new works. Ally holds a BFA in Theatre Performance with Concentration in Musical Theatre from Baylor University and is a grateful graduate of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core honors program (which, actually, was quite dramaturgical. Ask her about it!).
Her dramaturgy thus far has included production dramaturgy, educational resources, lobby displays, script reading, and mostly new work development dramaturgy for plays, musicals, and plays with music. Ally is passionate about stories with space for melancholy and the bittersweet, movement in theatre, environmental science, plays with music, folk musicals, literary adaptations, femme-centric stories, and ensemble work. While she has some specialities, Ally has a wide and varied interest in all theatrical works and promises to approach your writing with an open heart and curious mind. In addition to dramaturgical pursuits, Ally lends her detail-oriented skillset behind the scenes to arts administration. In her time with Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest and the Digital Development Project, she’s served stories by coordinating casting, managing script submissions, handling communications with creatives, organizing schedules, securing travel and transportation, selecting sides for a nationwide acting competition, setting up many many chairs, running light boards, reviewing and writing website copy edits, and more. She’s not afraid of the multiplicity sometimes needed to get stories onstage. |
On occasion, Ally utilizes an introverted perspective to connect theatre to the wider world through writing. Select bylines include Breaking Character: A Concord Theatricals Publication, connecting Beatrix Potter to dramaturgy in an article for the LMDA Bulletin, travel blogs for Millennium Tours, theatre education content for Theater.Academy, and hopefully more soon!
She is an active member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and currently serves as the Bulletin Co-Editor on their Communications Committee. She deeply appreciates their mission to demystify dramaturgy and advocate for its necessity in the arts. In a few of her theatrical freelancing endeavors, Ally dabbles in archiving. She took a summer to chronicle Baylor Theatre’s season histories for internal use, spent another summer organizing an archival closet of physical materials for a theatrical licensing company, and now spends a few of her hours learning more about archival methods & organizing a Starchive digital archive for a theatrical writing team’s estate. Additionally, she has made a bit of an archive for herself here at allyvaritek.com. Feel free to explore it for yourself! When not reading a play or in a rehearsal space, you can find Ally searching for hidden gems while antique shopping, reading with a large cup of tea, quietly competitive at a board game night, or enjoying butterscotch chocolate chip cookies. Other interests: Archives & theatre history; women’s sports including soccer, flag football, volleyball, & tennis; folk musical styles, especially from Irish and Scottish traditions; science & environmental science/sustainability; stories where melancholy is invited to the table of acceptable emotions; introverts as characters and introversion as a lens to see the world (#theatreneedsmoreintroverts); comes from a background in movement-based work and musical theatre as a performer; grew up in the American South (Georgia). |
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From Playwrights & Musical Writers: |
Rebecca Lowrey, Owner/CEO of MusicalWriters.com
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"Ally was fantastic to work with and was such a champion of my work. I always felt like she had my best interest in mind and asked me the best questions to help get my play and my writing to a better place. I feel like I walked away from this experience with a fuller, more realized play and a better writer."
- Parker Davis Gray, playwright, How to Lose a Sleep Paralysis Demon in 10 Days "Ally is dedicated, thorough, intelligent, and has a innate sense about what a play is, needs, and wants to be. I highly recommend her services as a dramaturg if you're looking to cross the bridge from good to great." - Calder Meis, actor & playwright, cry hard
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MY PROJECTS |
This is my living archive & portfolio of my dramaturgy.
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