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Deborah Stein’s plays include GOD SAVE GERTRUDE, BONE PORTRAITS, THE AERODYNAMICS OF ACCIDENT, and WALLFLOWER. Her work has been produced and developed nationally at Seattle Rep, the Women’s Project, the Wilma Theatre, the Playwrights’ Center, the Red Eye, 1812 Productions, Dance Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Walkerspace, and Theatre Artaud; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh (the Traverse) and most recently in Prague, where she produced a festival of new Czech and American playwriting. She has collaborated with the Pig Iron Theatre Company on six new works including ANODYNE and THE LUCIA JOYCE CABARET (both nominated for the Barrymore Award for Best New Play) and SHUT EYE, directed by Joseph Chaikin. She has been a resident artist at Hedgebrook, Lexington Center, Princeton University, and Swarthmore College, and her writing is published in Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American Poetry of 1996. Currently working on commissions from the Children’s Theatre Company, the History Theatre, and the Guthrie, Deborah received her MFA from Brown University and is a two-time Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center.
GOD SAVE GERTRUDE
Play with Songs, 75 Minutes
2W, 2M
A play with songs, a concert with characters--God Save Gertrude is punk rock riff on Hamlet in which Queen Gertrude, now a fading punk rocker, sings about her many loves and many mistakes, hoping to incite one last riot before she goes.
Developed at PlayLabs (2006), Orlando Shakespeare Festival (2006), and Workhaus Collective (2007).
BONE PORTRAITS
Vaudevillian Melodrama, 75 Minutes
2W, 3M
In 1895, a hapless inventor stumbles upon a light that burns through skin: in a flash, the X-ray is born. A wild ride of gothic horror, old-time vaudeville, and sweeping romance, Bone Portraits takes us back to this moment of discovery, when the world split open like an atom and nothing could ever seen the same way again.
Developed with Lear deBessonet and Stillpoint Productions, with the support of the EST/Sloan Foundation. Presented at Walkerspace, 2006.
THE AERODYNAMICS OF ACCIDENT
Comedy, 90 Minutes
2W, 1M
In 1897, an ambitious young girl crashes to her death in an experimental flying machine. Left to pick up the pieces are a reclusive widow, who won’t leave her house; an upstart professor, who can’t get inside; and the ghost of the dead girl, who haunts them all.
Developed at Seattle Rep (2005) and Ars Nova (2005).