Deirdre K. Price is a writer (scholar, playwright) from Virginia. She is a current M.A. candidate in English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, where her research investigates how the social and political categories of race, sexuality and gender, and nationality are textually co-constructed in 20th-century American literature. Her scholarly work is multidisciplinary and also takes up cultural objects such as film, TV, theatre and performance, and photography.
Deirdre’s most recent play, the private apocalypse of where, tennessee, has lately been read in New York City (The Bechdel Group, Menagerie Arts Coalition & Out of Order Collective) and in Blacksburg and Roanoke, VA (Kitchen Sink Artist Collective). The Jupiter Bird has been performed at Hollins University, Boston Conservatory at...
Deirdre K. Price is a writer (scholar, playwright) from Virginia. She is a current M.A. candidate in English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, where her research investigates how the social and political categories of race, sexuality and gender, and nationality are textually co-constructed in 20th-century American literature. Her scholarly work is multidisciplinary and also takes up cultural objects such as film, TV, theatre and performance, and photography.
Deirdre’s most recent play, the private apocalypse of where, tennessee, has lately been read in New York City (The Bechdel Group, Menagerie Arts Coalition & Out of Order Collective) and in Blacksburg and Roanoke, VA (Kitchen Sink Artist Collective). The Jupiter Bird has been performed at Hollins University, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and in New York City at the historic Under St. Marks. She is co-author of a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to James A. Baldwin (2026). Deirdre received her B.A. in English and Theatre from Hollins University.