Dana Delany is calling from her trailer on the set of “Desperate Housewives.”

Make that her leaky trailer.

“The rain is coming right in and getting on my personal clothing,” she says with a laugh.

Then her phone dies.

When Delany calls back, she barely has time to report the latest from Wisteria Lane — “I’ve been shooting scenes with our newest cast member, Julie Benz, who’s playing a stripper” — before the phone dies again.

Delany dials again, on another line. This time, she was able to talk without interruption about the Ojai Playwrights Conference, an event that clearly is dear to her.

“I know actors always say this, but, if we don’t have good writers, we don’t get to do any good work,” said Delany, who won two Emmy Awards for playing nurse Colleen McMurphy on “China Beach” and starred in “Pasadena” and “Presidio Med” before joining “Desperate Housewives” in 2007.

Delany may be best known for her TV roles, but she puts her time and money where her live-theater interests are: She serves on the conference’s board of directors and is a veteran of its winter fundraiser, which at 5:30 p.m. Saturday will see her performing on the Matilija Junior High School auditorium stage with Sally Field, Zachary Quinto and Ted Danson, among others.

When the weeklong conference itself takes place at Besant Hill School in the Upper Ojai this summer, chances are good that Delany either will be in the audience or in the cast for the reading of some in-progress play.

“It’s a chance to experience fresh voices in theater, in a place where no one is being judged,” she said of the conference experience, which many attendees have likened to the live-theater version of band camp. “It gets to the core of what we do as actors. It gets me all jazzed up again about what I do for a living.”

It also highlights why live theater remains relevant in the era of personal dramas writ large on Twitter and Facebook, neither of which Delany uses. (She does, however, correspond with fans via her official Web site, http://www.danadelany.com.)

“We’re so isolated now by technology that we risk missing out on the communal experience,” she said.

To prove her point, Delany described what happened last summer during the conference presentation of “How to Write a New Book for The Bible,” Bill Cain’s serio-comic play about love, death and family.

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I’m not going to be one of those people who goes I told you so. That would be super rude of us, and that’s not really our thing. Even on the facebook page for this site, even on the twitter for this site we have always clearly stated that we are not Dana, nor do we represent her, nor do we know her. People don’t always get it though, the fakes are usually very good at what they do, (However, Rebeca and I did call out the twitter fake when she posted McMurphy with an E in it. :S) so we’re posting this to finally put the rumors to rest and silence the accusations from one who dared to accuse us of posing as Dana, when in reality said person admitted to creating the facebook page and posing.. then deleted it when he got caught.

Tsk Tsk R. Ne montrez pas de doigts le monsieur. La conversation du pot appelant la bouilloire noire.