Dria Brown (she/her) is a Black, queer producer and cultural strategist. She currently serves as the Producing Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning nonprofit Broadway Advocacy Coalition, where she leads national programs, public convenings, and artist-centered initiatives that position creative practice as a force for justice and civic engagement.

In her leadership at Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Dria has helped steward the organization’s evolution into a nationally recognized nonprofit at the intersection of arts and justice. During her tenure, BAC has partnered with institutions including the Tribeca Film Festival and Sundance Institute and collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Dominique Morisseau, Jesse Williams, Lynn Nottage, The Bengsons, Tiffany Mann, John Clay III, Ephraim Sykes, Adrienne Warren, and Jerrie Johnson. The organization’s work was recognized with a Special Tony Award in 2021.

A bi-coastal digital and live event producer working between New York City and Los Angeles, Dria’s producing work spans live performance, large-scale convenings, and digital civic experiences. Her projects include New INC’s Demo Festival at the New Museum, Theater of Change at Columbia Law School, and Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Night of Artivism and annual culminating performances at venues across New York City including Signature Theatre, Abrons Arts Center, MCC Theater, and The Tank.

During the 2020 uprisings, Dria produced the three-day digital convening Broadway for Black Lives Matter, which reached more than 10,000 viewers and received a Webby Award. Her touring and commercial production experience includes serving as tour manager and talent booker for Britton & The Sting with Sammy Rae & The Friends, as well as producing live music performances at Joe’s Pub, Baby’s All Right, Second Stage Theater, Rockwood Music Hall, and C’mon Everybody. Additional producing credits include performance programming with Alethea Pace at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the Civil Practice Fellowship and production work on Terence Nance’s Biennial presentation at the Whitney Museum.

Dria is the founder of The Creative Doula Studio. She uses the term Creative Doula to describe how she makes work and is committed to expanding its use across the arts as a way to name care-centered, process-driven creative leadership. She produces high-caliber events where production value and audience experience are treated as central.

As a producer and cultural strategist, Dria weaves storytelling, facilitation, and civic imagination to support art that moves beyond performance and into impact. Her work centers creativity as a site of care, power, and collective responsibility, in service of justice, connection, and lasting change.