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. I was the student technical director on two California Education Theater Association (CETA) Best Production Finalists (Peter Pan in 2017 and Puffs in 2019). I also assistant directed department productions of A Monster Calls and Mamma Mia!, directed and starred as Harper in a selection of scenes from Angels in America, and adapted and directed a scene from the film Lady Bird for stage as part of a screen-to-stage student-directed festival.

One of my favorite projects from high school was starring in and devising a site-specific immersive horror play called Anatra, which roamed outdoors throughout campus and diverged into multiple different routes for audience to choose from.

It is no surprise, then, that 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.

Most recently, I directed and produced an site-specific, roaming production of Romeo & Juliet in Riverside Park this summer. I then co-founded the Accidental Evils Production Company with Emily Mayo, one of the Romeo & Juliet produers, and Sita Pawar, which I will produce a site-specific production of Henry IV Pt. 1 with this upcoming winter.

For my day job, I work in children’s publishing at Scholastic as an Editorial and Administrative Assistant, supporting SVP Debra Dorfman with the Licensed Publishing, Acorn & Branches, and Klutz 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.