RheAnn is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and dramaturg. She is a born and raised Mississippian who comes from a long line of community leaders, teachers, civil rights activists, and prayer warriors – all of whom are colorful storytellers. At 18, RheAnn moved to New York City, where she earned a degree in Playwriting and Directing at Marymount Manhattan College. While in New York, she worked in several theatrical lanes, including stage management, intimacy directing, dramaturgy, assistant directing, and theatre education.

RheAnn developed her passion for dramaturgy as a New Work Development Intern at The Public Theater in New York City. Since then, she has provided script consulting and dramaturgical assistance for theatre, film, and television.

Today, RheAnn is based in Los Angeles, though she still considers herself deeply rooted in her Black Southern identity. RheAnn is an expert in Southern Black mysticism, folklore, blues music, and the evolution of Black Southern culture. She is a fanatic of the fantastical, paranormal, and brave investigations of family dynamics, sociology, and human evolution. She is inspired by storytelling’s power to shift culture, broaden perspective, and uplift humanity.

RheAnn sharpens her skills as a writer by researching the evolution of storytelling through various mediums and its short or long-term impacts on culture at the time. Her published writing consists of fantastical and sentimental short stories, intimate personal essays, and observations of storytelling through different mediums. RheAnn is also quite the academic for comedy, townspeople, and clowning. When she isn’t publishing her writing on Substack or at rehearsal, RheAnn enjoys catching WIP shows at The Elysian, taking puppetry workshops, and creating script coverage for several theaters and production companies in New York and Los Angeles.