Deborah Brevoort

Deborah Brevoort is the award-winning author of numerous plays, musicals and operas. Originally from Alaska, she now resides in the New York City area. She is best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which won the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Contest and is being produced all over the world. Other plays include: Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh Drama about Elvis Presley, The Poetry of Pizza, The Blue-Sky Boys, The Comfort Team, My Lord, What a Night, The Velvet Weapon, Into the Fire, and Signs of Life. Her musical works include Crossing Over, an Amish hip pop musical with composer Stephanie Saltzman; King Island Christmas and Goodbye My Island with composer David Friedman; Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing with Scott Richards; Embedded, an opera inspired by Edgar Allan Poe stories with Patrick Soluri; Steal a Pencil for Me, an opera with Gerald Cohen; and new adaptations of Die Fledermaus and Mozart’s Impresario for the Anchorage Opera. She was a finalist for the Pelliciotti Opera Composition Prize for her opera of Albert Nobbs, with Patrick Soluri. Her plays are published by Applause Books, Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and No Passport Press. She teaches at Goddard College, Columbia University and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program/Tisch School of the Arts.