Dianna MacLeod

1989 Alumna

Cottage: Fir

Bio: Dianna MacLeod studied playwriting with the former dramaturg at Seattle's Intiman Theatre. Her produced works include The Guardians (The Women's Theatre), three plays about fictional girl detective Nancy Drew, and Rooted (New City Theatre). During a residency at Hedgebrook, Dianna completed Two Together, which was subsequently performed by students at the Yale School of Drama.
After decades of working in public relations for nonprofits, Dianna moved to Whidbey Island in 2011, where she served as managing editor for the print editions of Whidbey Life Magazine since 2014 and publisher at Whidbey Life Media since 2017. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of
Michigan. A free press is of great importance to her; that concern led directly to a frenzied month of writing An Interview with Crump's Cat in November, 2016 for a festival of new works by local playwrights at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. The sequel, A Conversation with Crump’s Cat, set in
January of 2025, is a tragicomedy about a second term of one of the worst presidents in our nation’s history.