Ms. DiGiovanni is the author of several produced plays, and many of her plays have been finalists in U.S. playwriting contests, including the Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award at the College of Charleston.  She has had staged readings, workshops and productions in Los Angeles: Ensemble Studio Theatre – L.A.; Theatre West; The Road Theatre Company; and The Company Rep; in New York:  New York University; The Puzzle: Marble’s Festival in New York; and This Woman’s Work Theater Company; and Dallas, TX; Nantucket, MA; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 

She has worked with several Los Angeles theater companies, including The Company Rep, as dramaturg and workshop moderator; the Road Theatre Company, where the Playwrights Lab was in residence. At Actors Alley in North Hollywood, CA, Ms. DiGiovanni co-founded, co-moderated, and was the literary manager of the Playwrights Lab 2000-2002. At Theatre West, she is a member of the company as well as a co-moderator of the Writers Workshop.  At Ensemble Studio Theatre-Los Angeles, she is an Associate Member of the company and a member of its Playwrights Unit and its Members Council.

In addition, she is a play reader for the Director of New Play Development for Native Voices @ The Autry.  She has read for the Literary Manager of South Coast Repertory  in Costa Mesa, CA; the Director of South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project; and for the Literary Manager of the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. Ms DiGiovanni was a Founding Member of The Company Rep (2000-2006) in North Hollywood, CA, Artistic Director Hope Alexander.

 She has an M.F.A from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, and has been a past playwriting resident at the old Dorset Colony in Dorset, Vermont. 

Professional memberships:

  • Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.

  • Pen Center USA West

  • Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights

  • Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America

  • Theatre West and the Writers Workshop

  • Associate Member Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles

  • Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles Playwrights Unit