About Phoebe Corde
Phoebe (she/her) is a New York-based writer, dramaturg, story consultant, and digital illustrator, specializing in stories of the strange, magical, and otherworldly. She has spent the last six years bringing emerging and established artists to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages and the television screen as a creative collaborator, story editor, and partner-in-crime. She is essentially a translator for the artistic mind -- helping you achieve your creative vision for your project by offering script notes, asking questions, and being your sounding board, all while anticipating the analyses, critiques, confusions, and passions of your future audience. She originally curated new creative work as Editor-in-Chief of New London's Cadenza Literary & Arts Magazine, then as a dramaturg in The Public Theater's New Work Development department. Currently, she is Resident Dramaturg and Director of the R&D Group at
The Civilians, an investigative theater company based in Brooklyn. She is also on the artistic board of Off-Brand Opera, a theater company focused on breaking the boundaries between opera and musical theater. Her freelance work includes dramaturgy, story consulting, and illustrating, through which she works with up-and-coming playwrights, screenwriters, composers, directors, authors, and artists across mediums. Her own art includes novels (Ananke, An Angel Among The Devil's Children), plays (Clemenza, Jazz Funeral,12:15 Earthly Time), graphic novels (Red Room On A Dark Web), digital paintings, and commissioned work. As a mixed race Latina and spooky October baby, she has always been drawn to the realms of realismo mágico, science fiction, urban fantasy, and horror. If you're looking for her, you will often find her there.
Featured Current Projects
PSYCHE
Dramaturg
Psyche is a new horror fantasy musical by Emily Garber and Jake Landau that follows a young woman worshipped for her beauty in mythic Ancient Greece. Psyche, who believes herself incapable of romantic desire, prays to the love goddess Aphrodite to “fix” her. But when Psyche accidentally murders the man she was arranged to marry, Aphrodite curses her to marry a monster instead.
Psyche expects her new husband to kill her, but instead he reveals himself to be Eros, the old god of love, also punished by Aphrodite to exist as a monster in the shadows. Psyche begins to fall for Eros, whom she cannot see or touch. But as she comes into her own agency and powers that may allow her to escape her fate, she must decide if she is willing to give up everything for a chance to love.
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More info & demos here: https://psychethemusical.com/
RED ROOM ON A DARK WEB
Illustrator
A graphic novel adaptation of Joshua Young's play, Red Room on a Dark Web. Two desperate teenagers, Kevin and Dezba, need quick, hard cash to finance an escape from their post-industrial city. Decayed factories, now rusted and ruined metal monsters, bully and taunt the teens as this town of urban decay literally poisons them with its bad air and bad water. The friends feel like they’ve struck gold when they find a “Create the best Creepypasta” contest on the darknet that awards $10,000. But when Dezba’s father’s stash of valuable copper is stolen he does the unthinkable after he learns his daughter knows how to make money on the darknet.