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Deborah Stein ’99 discusses collaborative Theater

http://www.howlround.com/2011/08/14/what-i-mean-when-i-talk-about-collaboration-by-deborah-stein/

Currently participating in the HARP residency program at HERE Arts Center with co-collaborator Suli Holum ’97, Deborah Stein’s plays include God Save Gertrude, Wallflower, Bone Portraits and The Aerodynamics of Accident. Her work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre @ Boston Court, the Guthrie, the Children’s Theatre, Seattle Rep, Stages Rep, the Women’s Project, the Wilma Theatre, Azuka Theatre Company, Live Girls!, and Theatre Artaud; in New York at the Public Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Ars Nova; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh (the Traverse) and Prague. A frequent collaborator of the Pig Iron Theatre Company, she most recently worked on Welcome To Yuba City, and was twice nominated for the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, for The Lucia Joyce Cabaret and Shut Eye (dir. Joseph Chaikin). Her writing is published in Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American Poetry of 1996. She has been an artist in residence at Hedgebrook, Swarthmore College, Princeton University, the Tofte Lake Center for the Arts, and the Lexington Center, and has taught at NYU, Northeastern University, St. Olaf College, Parsons School of Design, and Brown University, where she received her MFA. Deborah is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis), where she is co-producing director of the Workhaus Collective. She is the recipient of a 2009-2011 Bush Artist Fellowship and a member of New Dramatists.