Ilana Brownstein is a dramaturg and director specializing in new play development, based in Boston. She is the Founding Dramaturg at Playwrights' Commons, the Director of New Work at Company One, and a professor of dramatic literature and dramaturgy at Boston University's School of Theatre. For seven years she was the Literary Manager and dramaturg at The Huntington Theatre Company, where she created the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program and the Breaking Ground Festival of New Play Readings, and ushered new plays to premiere at the Huntington, on Boston stages, and on Broadway.

In both 2008 and 2014, she won the Elliott Hayes Award, an international prize given yearly by Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas for innovation and excellence in dramaturgy; and in 2011 won LMDA's Dramaturg-Driven Grant for her work with Playwrights' Commons. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and a BA in Directing from The College of Wooster.