Playwright

Festivals:


  1. Bullet The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts “Page to Stage Festival,” Washington, DC, 2008 & 2009. Read by Accokeek Creek Theatre Co., Baltimore, MD.

  2. Bullet Chicago Dramatist’s “What Scares Me the Most,” with Guest Director Joy Meads, Literary Manager for Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2008.

  3. Bullet ARFTCo.’s “Chicago Christmas Spectacular,” Chicago, IL, 2008.

  4. Bullet The Women’s Theatre Project’s “Girl Play: The First Annual Lesbian Play Reading Festival,” Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2009.

  5. Bullet The Filling Station’s “Sol-O Fest,” Albuquerque, NM, 2009, (with Deborah performing).

  6. Bullet “Festival of Summer Shorts,” Portland, OR, 2007.

  7. Bullet “Bench Warmers: The Santa Fe Playhouse Annual Festival of Short Plays,” 2008 & 2009, (2008 co-written with Peggy Van Hulsteyn.)

Unspeakable: A Collection of 8 Shorts Performed in 2008 at The Santa Fe Film Center, Santa Fe, NM, as a fundraiser for The Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center. Here’s what the press had to say: "If you're afraid of the big bad world out there, home is your safe haven. Unless home becomes the big bad world--as in the performance piece Unspeakable... The playwright focuses on a turning point--acknowledgement, denial, maybe even accusation--in the character's lives... Who can people turn to if it seems like everyone around them is either indifferent to, ignorant of, or directly responsible for their suffering?" Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican, click here to download pdf. "Deborah wishes to break the taboos and exorcise the shame of the victims... She also employes humor, satire, and compassion to lighten the dramatic load... Deborah is attempting to demythologize the canard that the rape victim is somehow 'different.'" Jeff Laing, SantaFe.com, click here to download pdf. "An evening of theater that explores the many faces of trauma: denial, miscommunication, lying and more. Unspeakable presents the dark side of life without being preachy, and the eight short plays tell stories from a variety of perspectives." Santa Fe Reporter, click here to download pdf. Click here to visit UnspeakbleThePlay.com http://web.mac.com/computermedic/Unspeakable/Welcome.html
Above: Unspeakable rehearsal, (Leventman, Trent)http://web.mac.com/computermedic/Unspeakable/Welcome.html
Above: “The Wedding Not meant to Be” at Bench Warmers 2008. (Provan, Buckner, Andrus). Click here for more pictures. http://www.deborahfinkelstein.com/WriteOn2/The_Wedding_That_Was_Not_Meant_To_Be.html
  http://web.mac.com/computermedic/Unspeakable/Welcome.html

Publications


Short plays in The Red Clay Review & The Pitkin Review


Click here to read them.

Education:


MFA, Creative Writing, Goddard College

BA, English & Theater, Rutgers University

Master Class, Chicago Dramatists


Instructors included: Gary Garrison, Jane Anderson, Susan Kim, Paul Selig, Deborah Brevoort, Michael Grady, Rogelio Martinez, Alfonso Ramirez, Young James Kenny, Kyle Bass, Roger Cornish, Eric Krebs, Joseph Hart, and Kevin Kittle


Member:


  1. Bullet Dramatists Guild of America

  2. Bullet Chicago Dramatists

  3. BulletThe Playwrights’ Center

  4. Bullet International Beckett Society

  5. Bullet The Loop

  6. Bullet Goddard Dramatists

  7. Bullet Santa Fe Performing Arts Playwrights & Directors Unit

  8. Bullet Theater Santa Fe


Deborah performs, directs, works as a dramaturge, and does other work in the theater. Click here to learn more. Theater.html

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