Deborah named Creative Director of Seattle Opera’s Creative Lab with composer Laura Kaminsky
SEATTLE: Seattle Opera announced today that composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Deborah Brevoort have been named Creative Directors of the company’s new-works incubator program, the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab. [...]
Deborah receives commission to write a youth opera for the Glimmerglass Festival.
COOPERSTOWN, NY: International Opera Award winner The Glimmerglass Festival announces its programming for the 2027 season, with over 30 mainstage performances running from July 12 to August 22, 2027. Included [...]
Deborah approved for Fulbright Specialist residency in Germany
WASHINGTON DC/FRANKFURT GERMANY: The US Fulbright Commission has approved a residency in Germany for Fulbright Specialist Deborah Brevoort. Deborah will lead opera writing workshops in Weisbaden, Frankfurt and Munich through New [...]
Blue Moon Over Memphis will be performed in the 2026 Tokyo Autumn Arts Festival
TOKYO, JAPAN: The Tokyo Autumn Arts Festival has announced the lineup of performances for the 2026 Festival from October 9-November 3. Deborah’s Noh drama “Blue Moon Over Memphis” will be [...]
Deborah awarded a Moody Research Grant from the LBJ Presidential Library.
AUSTIN, TX: (December 15, 2025). The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas has awarded librettist Deborah Brevoort a 2026 Moody Research grant to conduct research on Lady Bird Johnson for [...]
Deborah Brevoort’s Opera The Knock to Be Presented at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO: The Knock, Deborah’s opera written with composer Aleksandra Vrebalov will be presented on Sunday November 23 at the US AirForce Academy in a collaboration that includes the Opera [...]
Deborah’s play MY LORD, WHAT A NIGHT slated for George St Playhouse production
NEW BRUNSWICK NJ: April 21, 2025. George Street Playhouse announced their upcoming season today. Deborah’s play MY LORD WHAT A NIGHT, about Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein will be produced [...]
Deborah awarded a 2025 Playwriting Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
TRENTON NJ, February 11, 2025: The NJ State Council on the Arts announced the recipients of the 2025 Individual Artists Fellowships today. 107 artists in multiple disciplines were awarded fellowships [...]
The Red Thread, Deborah’s opera with composer Wang Lu is awarded a Discovery grant from Opera America.
Lu and Deborah will workshop The Red Thread, their new opera, with funding from the grant. The Red Thread is about Chinese girls who search for their birth mothers after [...]
Deborah conducts an Opera Writing Workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Deborah held an opera writing workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in January 2025 under the auspices of the US State Department’s Fulbright Specialist Program. Five Korean composers [...]
Steal a Pencil for Me CD released on Sono Luminus label
A recording of the “Steal a Pencil for Me” opera, by composer Gerald Cohen and librettist Deborah Brevoort, will be released on the Sono Luminus record label on August 23, [...]
Deborah approved for Fulbright Specialist residency in South Korea
WASHINGTON DC/SEOUL S. KOREA. The US Fulbright commission has approved a residency in South Korea for Fulbright Specialist Deborah Brevoort. Deborah will lead a month-long opera writing workshop for selected [...]
