DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING
Manuscripts, podcasts, speeches & books
in the humanities, performing & visual arts,
social sciences & marketing
Client Projects:
Narrative Art Book:
Betsy Dovydenas
Podcast: Gurus
Prose: The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off
Jeff Zinn
I am thrilled to recommend Jayne Benjulian as an editor. I worked with Jayne on the final drafts of my book, The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off, for approximately six months. Her sharp editorial eye and firm (yet somehow gentle) guidance were hugely important factors in allowing me to bring the book into its final form, attracting a publisher (Smith and Kraus), and crossing the finish line to publication. MORE
Memoir:
Tiffany Gayle Chenault
In editing my manuscript, Jayne has given me direction, encouragement, and wonderful thoughtful and extensive feedback. I appreciate the information, communication, and consistent support she gives to my writing and to me. Through her efforts, I have secured a book contract with New York University Press. I look forward to working with her for the completion of the manuscript.
About Jayne
Jayne is dedicated to giving writers high value by delivering manuscripts evolved far beyond the drafts with which she begins work. Her signature observations and recommendations about structure and voice help clarify writing for both academic and general audiences, often suggesting revisions that take an author’s message beyond an academic audience to a wider public.
She acquired her working knowledge of the fields in which she edits after long experience. She was dramaturg and director of new play development at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and chief speechwriter at Apple. Her recent projects include helping authors develop memoirs; essays; oral arguments; speeches; and art books.
Jayne offers: developmental and copy editing for a full manuscript and/or a preliminary review and summary of recommendations.
She has mentored writers and edited the work of dramaturgs; producers; creative directors; speechwriters; graduate students and individual faculty in sociology, the performing arts and humanities; news reporters; C-level executives in marketing, technology and investment; and independent prose writers and memoirists.
The author of original work on branding and positioning; playwright and director interviews; essays on the relationship of artists to each other; and a poetry collection, Five Sextillion Atoms, published in 2016, Jayne earned an M.F.A. at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and an M.A. in English at Emory University.
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