Deborah Baley Brevoort is an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist. Brevoort received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English, playwriting and music theatre writing from Kent State University, Brown University, and New York University. Having worked briefly in Juneau, AK, Brevoort began writing and producing her plays The Last Frontier Club and Signs of Life at Perseverance Theatre. Signs of Life was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation playwriting grant and was later published. Brevoort is most widely known for her play 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. Her other works include Blue Moon Over Memphis, Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, King Island Christmas, Into the Fire, The Poetry of Pizza, The Blue Sky Boys, The Velvet Weapon, The Comfort Team, and two operas Embedded and Steal a Pencil for Me. Brevoort is a member of ASCAP, The Dramatists Guild, and the National Theatre Conference, and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, and Goddard College.
Deborah Baley
Studios
Mixter
Deborah Baley worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…