Deborah Brevoort

Deborah Brevoort is the author of numerous plays and musicals, including The Women of Lockerbie, which won the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting competition and the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. It was produced off-Broadway, in London at the Orange Tree Theatre, and at the Actor’s Gang in Los Angeles, and is currently being produced and published around the world. Other plays include Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh Drama about Elvis Presley; The Poetry of Pizza, produced at Purple Rose, Mixed Blood, Virginia Stage, Theatre in the Square, Centenary Stage, and Cal Rep; The Blue-Sky Boys, commissioned by the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology project and produced at the Barter Theatre; The Velvet Weapon, a backstage farce inspired by the Velvet Revolution, written with a grant from CEC Arts Link; Signs of Life, published by Samuel French, winner of the Jane Chambers award and Gold Medal Pinter Review Prize for Drama; and Into the Fire, winner of the Weissberger Award and developed at the O’Neill. The Comfort Team, her new play about military families, was commissioned by the Virginia Stage Company, where it premiered in 2012.