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Deborah Brevoort

DEBORAH BREVOORT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.  

Deborah is a member of New Dramatists and lives in the United States

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Deborah Brevoort's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blue Moon Over Memphis         Blue Sky Boys, The         Cheechako Treatment         Comfort Team, The         Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing         Crossing Over         Goodbye My Island         Into the Fire         King Island Christmas         My Lord What A Night         Of Men And Mountains         Poetry Of Pizza, The         Signs Of Life         Velvet Weapon, The         Wet Willies         Women Of Lockerbie, The

Blue Moon Over Memphis

Synopsis:
Judy, an Elvis Presley fan, makes a pilgrimage to Graceland on the anniversary of Elvis's death. During the candlelight vigil she meets the ghost of Elvis.

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in Japanese by Journal of Noh Research archives, MUSAshino Univeristy, Tokyo,    -

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Genre:
Noh Drama about elvis Presley Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Blue Sky Boys, The

Synopsis:
What inspired the men who made the apollo Moon Landing happen. Buck Rogers and the Red Baron.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cheechako Treatment

Synopsis:
Visitors to alaska are frightened by tales of ferocious bears

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Inspired by the play "the Contrast" (1787) by Raoyall Tyler And A minstrel sketch "the Colored Senators"

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Genre:
Ten min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Comfort Team, The

Comfort Team, The
The women left behind when their men go off to fight in Iraq

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Contained in: "Women of Lockerbie and Comfort Team" lulu.com 2014   978-1312071049

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing

Synopsis:
Tells the story of the creation of the world and the evolution of man. Five actors play 8 characters ranging from Mosquitoes and Slugs to Brown Bears and eagles taking the audience on a comic romp through the stages of life, including birth, coming of age, falling in love and death.

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Book & lyrics by Deborah Brevoort, Music by Scott Davenport Richards

1st Produced:
Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska     1996

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Crossing Over

Synopsis:
An Amish girl Rebecca loves singing. She meets a hip-hop preacher Reverend Blue. Rebecca joins his street hip-hop hymn singing on the streets. Her family and community are appalled. She goes to New York where she enters the world of pop

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Music by Stephanie Salzman; lyrics by Deborah Salzman; Deborah Brevoort; book by Deborah Brevoort

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Goodbye My Island

Synopsis:
a fictionalized account of the removal of the King Islanders from their home in the Bering Sea of alaska by the US Government in 1963 told through the eyes of different community members who experienced the loss of their island, community and culture. Inspired by the book by Jean Rogers.

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Book And Lyrics by Deborah Brevoort, music by David Friedman

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  1g and chorus of 12-16 including 3 children

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Into the Fire

Synopsis:
alaskan fishing village is torn apart by a morals controversy when the mayor's wife walks naked through town in a desperate attempt to get the attention of her philandering husband

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Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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King Island Christmas

Synopsis:
a heartwarming story about the power of community and the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity inspired by a true story from the Bering Sea of alaska. Based on the book by Jean Rogers.

Notes:
libretto by Deborah Brevoort, music by David Friedman

1st Produced:
Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska     1997

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1st Published:
Cast album recorded by Thomas Z. Shepard, orchestrations by Peter Matz, released by the King Island Record Company, 1999   -

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Genre:
Christmas oratorio/musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  1b 1g 16 chorus

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My Lord What A Night

Synopsis:
1937 singer Marian Anderson was refused admission to an hotel because she was black. Albert Einstein invited her to stay with him

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Genre:
Drama

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Of Men And Mountains

Synopsis:
a woman returns to alaska and she is looking for a man.

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Poetry Of Pizza, The

Synopsis:
Professor Sarah Middleton arrives in Denmark on a teaching fellowship only to find her life thrown off-course when she stops by the Vermundsgade Pizzeria and falls suddenly in love with the pizza maker, a Kurdish refugee from Iraq who courts her with the most unusual pizzas.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Signs Of Life

Synopsis:
On a magical night in New Jersey, the stars talk to abe, Sal gets a magic tattoo and a journey begins. abe and Sal take off across the country, following the stars and looking for Birth and Life. Loosely based on the Sarah and abraham story from the Old Testament.

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Earlier Version Done At Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska. Current Version Unproduced     1990

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Velvet Weapon, The

Synopsis:
the play is set in a National theatre in an unnamed city in an unnamed country where a fight ensues during a performance between the artists, audience members and theatre managers over what's being performed on stage. With the theatre serving as a metaphor for the Czech nation, the audience in the play stops a performance and demands something new. the result is a humorous examination of democracy told through a battle between high-brow and low-brow art

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1st Produced:
La MaMa E.T.C., NY, USA >>>     18 Nov 2009

Organisations:
experiments '10

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wet Willies

Synopsis:
a trip to Wet Willies' car wash and an encounter with a bear

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1st Produced:
New Plays Festival, Browns University     1992

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Women Of Lockerbie, The

Women Of Lockerbie, The
a mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son's remains which were lost in the crash of Pan am 103. She meets the Women of Lockerbie, who are trying to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage so that they can be washed and returned to the families. Written in the structure of a Greek tragedy, it is a poetic Drama about the triumph of love over hate.

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Eugene O'Neill theater Center, Waterford, CT, 1999. Won the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition in 2001 And was Awarded the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award

1st Produced:
New Group And Women's Project Productions, Off-Broadway, NYC     2003

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Women of Lockerbie and Comfort Team" lulu.com 2014   978-1312071049

Music:
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Genre:
Tragedy, 120 min Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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