Ally Varitek

Mar 11

Dramaturg

ALLY VARITEK is a dramaturg, actor, mover, and literary lover graduating this spring from Baylor with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a concentration in Musical Theatre. Ally is currently working with Concord Theatricals as their Acquisitions and ArtisticDevelopment Intern for the spring. She loves to exist in the pockets between interdisciplinary pursuits, as she could never seem to pick just one as a child; at one point, she was playing flag football, training for academic team Jeopardy-style competitions, and rehearsing for theatre shows all in the same day. Specialties include movement-based work, plays with music, and collaborative new play dramaturgy. Dramaturgical projects: Airness by Chelsea Marcantel (Dramaturg, Baylor Theatre), Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine in concert (Production Dramaturg, Baylor Theatre), & CRY HARD graduate thesis playby Calder Meis (Production/New Play Development Dramaturg, Baylor Theatre). Other credits include: Kennedy Center 2021 Dramaturgy Fellow, O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference (Reader, 2022), & Epiphanies New Play Festival (Reader, 2022). She will be moving to the DFW area upon graduation hoping to pursue literary theatrical work as well as performance.

Graduation - May 2022

Selected Work

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Airness - Audience Guide

Director: Lisa Denman

Stage Manager: Piper Vaught

Scenic Design: David T.F. Smith

Lighting Design: Emma E. Smith

Costume Design: Z Garcia

Sound Design: Brian Do

Dramaturg: Ally Varitek

Baylor University Theatre Production Fall 2021

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Sunday in the Park with George - Audience Guide & Actor Packet

Direction: Lauren Weber, Guilherme Almeida, Melissa Johnson

Piano: Maggie Stith, Guilherme Almeida

Percussion: Kobi Chiou

Lighting Design: Hannah Early

Dramaturgy: Ally Varitek

Projections: Eduardo Vélez III

- As a multi-hypenate interdisciplinary addict, Baylor Theatre's concert reading of Sunday in the Park with George allowed me to use both identities as an actor and a dramaturg to contribute to the theatre being made. In a concert setting, we needed a way to connect the audience to the layers offered by a full stage production by providing enough insight to connect the dots between our minimal version. With both actor resources and audience resources, our specific production chose to accent the musical themes evident by hearing moreso than visual in a pared down presentation.

Baylor University Class Concert

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A Hippolytus Adaptation

After reading variations of the mythological story of Hippolytus, including Hippolytus by Euripides, Phaedra by Jean Racine, Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill, and Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane, we were instructed in the Dramaturgy class to construct our own adaptations and present them. Following the emotional threads and themes as through-lines, my adaptation A Good Name focuses on the ways in which an adaptation can be reminiscent of the old but take it into an entirely new time, age, body, and form. A Good Name is a movement-heavy piece of theatre, and this project may give you a window into my own creative tastes and tendencies that may often contribute to dramaturgical rooms.

Dramaturgy Class Project

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