Deborah Brevoort (Playwright) is the award-winning author of plays, musicals, and operas librettos. She’s best known for
The Women of Lockerbie, which is produced internationally. Her plays, produced at theatres across the US, include
: Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh Drama about Elvis,
The Poetry of Pizza, The Blue-Sky Boys, The Comfort Team, The Velvet Weapon, Into the Fire, and
Signs of Life. Her latest,
My Lord, What Night, will open at Ford’s Theatre in 2021. A two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award in musical theatre for
Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, with Scott Richards, and
King Island Christmas with David Friedman, her latest is
Crossing Over an Amish Hip Hop musical with Stephanie Salzman. She has written the librettos for seven operas, which have been produced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Colorado, and others. Her plays are published by Applause Books, Samuel French, DPS, and No Passport Press. Deborah is a cofounder of Theatre Without Borders, dedicated to international theatre exchange. She serves as a mentor to the NBO Musical Theatre Initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, and teaches at Columbia University and NYU. She is writing a new comedy titled
The Drolls for Florida Studio Theatre.