Deborah to serve as Librettist Mentor for WNO’s AOI project
WASHINGTON DC: Deborah will serve as the 2026-27 Librettist Mentor for Washington National Opera’s “American Opera Initiative” with composer Tom Cipullo who will serve as the Composer Mentor. The American [...]
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 [...]
Deborah joins mentor team at the Seattle Opera
SEATTLE, WA. Deborah will serve as a Librettist Mentor to the Seattle Opera’s 2024- 25 Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, with composers Laura Kaminsky and Zach Redler and librettist Jerre [...]
Deborah is appointed as a Fulbright Specialist by US. State Dept.
WASHINGTON DC; February 9, 2024. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning has placed Deborah Brevoort on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for [...]
No Passport Press Publishes 2nd edition of The Women of Lockerbie & The Comfort Team
April 2024: The second edition of Deborah’s two-play volume was released by No Passport Press featuring original cover artwork by Roberta Levitow.
