BIO

"Performance is a theatre of inclusion -- anyone can do it! You see all sorts of people doing it, not just little cuties or big hunks or people of just one hue! Anyone can do it! You can be large or gay or weird! You can be Jewish! You can have a fat rear end! You can be tone deaf, starstruck, hamstrung, anything! Performance is a theatre of inclusion. If you have a body, a memory, and a big endless desire: Performance. And you don't have to audition in a little outfit; just find a place on the street, an open mike, a coffee house, a living room. Performance."

Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of eight full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, as well as numerous plays, and is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance and the Kesselring Playwriting Award for her play Three Seconds in the Key in 2005. In May of 2007 she traveled on a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to University of Tel Aviv to present her play Critical Mass, in a Hebrew translation.

Deb has enjoyed commissions from the Jewish Museum of New York, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Actor's Theater of Louisville and other theaters, has lectured extensively at universities throughout the country, has been artist in residence at Hampshire College and University of Hawaii and Zale writer-in-residence at Tulane University, and served in the fall of 2000 as artist in residence in New York University's Department of Undergraduate Drama. She was awarded the 2005 Richard H. Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence at Yale University, and had the honor this year of accepting the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright award. A compilation of Deb's performance pieces and plays, entitled Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press.

Deb is currently an Associate Professor (adj.) in Yale University's undergraduate Theater Studies Program, and a proud member of New Dramatists.

For a fuller bio and descriptions of her works available through New Dramatists, click here.

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Listing of Deb's plays and performance pieces:

• 2006                O Yes I Will – solo commission, Middle Tennessee State University
• 2006                Clarisse and Larmon – Ohio Theater, New York City
• 2006                Time Is The Mercy of Eternity – Britebar, NY
• 2005                 Full production of Index to Idioms by Culture Project, New York City
• 2005                The Rich Silk Of It, Women’s Work Festival, staged reading, Women’s Project, New York City
• 2004                Three Seconds in the Key, Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC,
• 2004                 Index to Idioms, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
• 2003                 Index to Idioms; Bring in the Spring Festival, Kitchen Theater, Ithaca, NY
• 2002                 Why Cleaning Fails, HERE Theater, New York
• 2002                 Staged Reading, Three Seconds in the Key, Public Theater, NY
• 2002                 Rock, Scissors, Paper, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival
  
• 2001                 Three Seconds in the Key, original full-length production at Performance Space 122, New York
• 2000                 I Call for the Fireman and the Arsonist Comes, play by Madeleine Olnek at Joe’s Pub
• 1998                 Bringing the Fishermen Home
• 1997                 Critical Mass; Full-length original production; Performance Space 122, NY
• 1996                 O Wholly Night & Other Jewish Solecisms
• 1996                 Bearing Witnesses
• 1995                 Carthieves! Joyrides!
• 1994                 Of Mice, Bugs and Women
• 1993                 The Breaks (w/Rae C. Wright)
• 1992                 Lesbians Who Kill
• 1991                 Gestation
• 1990                 970-DEBB
• 1990                 You Don't Even Know Where the Strike Zone Is
• 1989                 Of All The Nerve
• 1989                 What's With Hamlet?
• 1988                 In A Vacuum
• 1986                 Coupla Weirdos
• 1982                 The God Show