Dria Brown is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and creative doula working between New York City and Los Angeles. As the Producing Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition and 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 builds spaces where artists, organizers, and communities leave differently than they arrived.

She leads national programs, public convenings, and artist-centered initiatives at BAC that position creative practice as a force for justice and civic engagement. Under her leadership, BAC has partnered with the Tribeca Film Festival and Sundance Institute and collaborated with artists including Dominique Morisseau, Jesse Williams, Lynn Nottage, The Bengsons, Adrienne Warren, and Ephraim Sykes. The organization received a Special Tony Award in 2021.

Her producing work spans live performance, large-scale convenings, and digital civic experiences — including New INC's Demo Festival at the New Museum, Theater of Change at Columbia Law School, and BAC's annual culminating performances at Signature Theatre, Abrons Arts Center, MCC Theater, and The Tank. 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.

Additional credits include production work on Terence Nance's Whitney Biennial presentation, performance programming with Alethea Pace at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and live music production at Joe's Pub, 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.