Hello! My name is Frankie DeGiorgio and I am a writer, director, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York and originally from Long Beach, California. In May 2024, I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University, where I was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee and the recipient of the Helen Prince Memorial Prize for excellence in Dramatic Composition and the Estelle M. Alison Prize for excellence in Literature.

I have been an avid reader and writer since childhood, and first cut my teeth in theater in high school, where I did a little bit of everything: acting, directing, stage crew, technical direction, and playwriting. My first full-length project in college was a site-specific, outdoor production of Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle, which I directed and produced with support from the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe. I would continue to work closely with KCST throughout my time at Columbia University, producing Much Ado About Nothing (2023) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2024) with the troupe.

Outside of KCST, I served on the executive boards of Columbia University Players (CUP) and New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students (NOMADS), as Vice President and President respectively. As President of NOMADS, I oversaw two full-length productions of new, student-written scripts, and two staged reading festivals of student-written work, called Wordplay. My passion for new and original work also influenced much of my college theater career. A staged reading of my original script JANE, an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, was presented in NOMADS’s Wordplay festival in Spring 2023. I also produced a production of the original script Camp Cattywampus, written by Tess Inderbitzin and Abigail Duclos, with support from the Columbia University Performing Arts League, and was the dramaturg and starred as Edward Ferrars in an original adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, written by Anjali Ramakrishnan.

For my senior thesis in Creative Writing, I wrote The Frat Boy Play, a full-length script following a group of fraternity brothers after they are accused of roofying a freshman girl at their latest party. After directing a staged reading in May 2024, I produced a workshop production of the show as part of The Tank’s Moonlight Series in March 2025.

I quickly found my way back to Shakespeare and directed and produced a site-specific, roaming production of Romeo & Juliet in August 2025. Afterwards, I went on to co-found the Accidental Evils Production Company with Emily Mayo, one of the Romeo & Juliet producers, and Sita Pawar, and produced a site-specific Henry IV with the company in February 2026.

For my day job, I work in children’s publishing at Scholastic as an Assistant Editor with the Licensed Publishing and Acorn & Branches imprints. My work at Scholastic is informed by my passion for children’s literature and early literacy, and I am motivated to develop engaging and accessible stories for children of all ages and backgrounds in order to address the ongoing illiteracy epidemic amongst children in the United States and beyond.

In my spare time, I like to read everything I can get my hands on (you can follow me on Goodreads here), play Animal Crossing and Mario Kart, and get way too invested in prestige television.