Dria Brown is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and creative doula working between New York City and Los Angeles. As the founder of The Creative Doula Studio, her work lives at the intersection of storytelling, civic imagination, collective care, and gathering. Through live performance, public programming, and cultural strategy, she creates conditions where artists, organizers, and communities leave differently than they arrived.

During her tenure as Producing Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition, she led national programs, public convenings, and artist-centered initiatives that positioned creative practice as a force for justice and civic engagement.

Her producing work spans live performance, large-scale convenings, and civic experiences. At the Aspen Art Museum, she serves as Assistant Producer for AIR 2026: Commedia dell'arte, a large-scale performance commission by Camille Henrot. At the New Museum, she is the Mainstage Talks Producer for Demo 2026. With Level Forward, she co-created and co-facilitates Storytelling Forward, a workshop for artists navigating narrative change and social impact, presented in partnership with the Tribeca Festival, the Sundance Institute, and SXSW. She also served as Facilitator for Theater of Change at Columbia Law School.

Additional producing credits include BAC's annual culminating performances at Signature Theatre, Abrons Arts Center, MCC Theater, The Tank, and Playwrights Horizons. In 2020, she produced Broadway for Black Lives Matter, a three-day digital convening that reached more than 10,000 viewers and received a Webby Award. The project was a significant part of the work that contributed to BAC receiving a Special Tony Award in 2021.

As a creative producer, her additional credits include Terence Nance's presentation for the Whitney Biennial, performance programming with Alethea Pace at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and live music production with Britton and the Sting at Joe's Pub, Nublu, Baby's All Right, Rockwood Music Hall, and Second Stage Theater.

Dria uses the term creative doula to describe a care-centered, process-driven approach to creative leadership and is committed to expanding its use across the arts.