Astronaut Week at Barter Theatre
In great anticipation of the world premiere of The Blue-Sky Boys by Deborah Brevoort, Barter is proud to host Astronaut Week at Barter Theatre, June 15 to June 19. [...]
The Blue-Sky Boys
Deborah’s new play about the imaginative and unorthodox creative process used by a group of maverick engineers to land men on the moon will have it’s world premiere at the [...]
The Women of Lockerbie
Teatre la Dependent will produce the Spanish premiere of The Women of Lockerbie, in Alcoi, Spain. […]
Into the Fire
A woman's awakening throws a remote island community into chaos in this two-act play set in an isolated Alaskan fishing town. At the height of the crisis, a mysterious man [...]
NEA Grant Will Fund Virginia Stage Military Play
The Virginia Stage Company has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help commission and produce a new play about the military. Deborah Brevoort's new play, with a working title of "The Comfort Team," will "explore the challenges and joys that families face when a loved one is serving their country," says Managing Director Keith Stava.
Mexico in Alaska
A story about the search for identity in the last frontier, set against the evocative and extreme landscape of the Alaskan wilderness. Written through the New Dramatists screenplay mentor program. [...]
Covered Dishes
A story about two middle-aged women—one white, one black—who become suddenly single and try to negotiate their way through the middle-aged singles scene. Commissioned and optioned by Fox Searchlight and [...]
Short Works
Wet Willies
Encounters with bears in Alaska, the terrors of writing and a trip to Wet Willies carwash are told in this one-woman solo performance piece about fear, deliverance and the power of language.
The Cheechako Treatment
A creative response to The Contrast by Royall Tyler (written in 1787) and several skits from late 19th century minstrel shows. A 10-minute play commissioned by America-in-Play (Artistic Director, Lynn Thompson.) and produced at Bates College, Maine
Goodbye My Island
Book and Lyrics by Deborah Brevoort/Music by David Friedman. This full length musical tells the story of the forced removal of the King Islanders from their home in the Bering Sea of Alaska by the US Government in 1963. This true story, which was fictionalized by Alaskan author Jean Rogers
King Island Christmas
An oratorio for the musical stage. Libretto by Deborah Brevoort/Music by David Friedman. Based on the children’s book from Alaska. The North Star freighter, carrying the village priest, is anchored in the Bering Sea on Christmas eve, on it’s last arctic voyage before the winter ice closes in around King Island.
Listen To My Heart
The Songs of David Friedman
Published by MIDDER Music Publishing, Inc.The music and lyrics to three of Deborah’s songs (“The Gift of Trouble”, “What Manner of Persons Ought Ye to Be?” and “Upon This Rock”) are contained in the David Friedman songbook. These are from “King Island Christmas” and “Goodbye My Island.”
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New Dramatists 2001 – Best Plays by the Graduating Class
This anthology contains an earlier version of The Women Of Lockerbie
Edited by Todd London
Published by Smith & Kraus, Inc.
ISBN #1-575-25298-8
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