Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

Biography

Deborah Brevoort is the author of numerous plays and musicals, including The Women of Lockerbie, which is currently being produced all over the US and the world after winning the Kennedy Center Fund for New American plays award and the silver medal in the Onassis International playwriting competition.  She is a two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre, first for  King Island Christmas, an oratorio written with composer David Friedman, and then for Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, with composer Scott Richards. She also wrote the book and lyrics for  Goodbye My Island,  with music by David Friedman and is currently working on a new musical with NYU GMTWP alum Stephanie Salzman.  King Island Christmas has been produced over 50 times in the US since 1997 and was recorded in a CD by 12-time Grammy winner Thomas Z. Shepard, with orchestrations by the late Peter Matz.  Her plays include   Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh Drama about Elvis Presley, The Poetry of Pizza,  The Blue-Sky Boys,  Into the Fire, and Signs of Lifeand have been published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French,  Applause Books and others.  She has received grants from the NEA, NYFA, Rockefeller Foundation, CEC ArtsLink and others. Deborah was one of the original company members with Perseverance Theatre inAlaska.