Deborah awarded a 2025 Playwriting Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
TRENTON NJ, February 11, 2025: The NJ State Council on the Arts announced the recipients of the 2025 Individual Artists Fellowships today. 107 artists in multiple disciplines were awarded fellowships [...]
The Red Thread, Deborah’s opera with composer Wang Lu is awarded a Discovery grant from Opera America.
Lu and Deborah will workshop The Red Thread, their new opera, with funding from the grant. The Red Thread is about Chinese girls who search for their birth mothers after [...]
Deborah conducts an Opera Writing Workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Deborah held an opera writing workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in January 2025 under the auspices of the US State Department’s Fulbright Specialist Program. Five Korean composers [...]
Steal a Pencil for Me CD released on Sono Luminus label
A recording of the “Steal a Pencil for Me” opera, by composer Gerald Cohen and librettist Deborah Brevoort, will be released on the Sono Luminus record label on August 23, [...]
Deborah approved for Fulbright Specialist residency in South Korea
WASHINGTON DC/SEOUL S. KOREA. The US Fulbright commission has approved a residency in South Korea for Fulbright Specialist Deborah Brevoort. Deborah will lead a month-long opera writing workshop for selected [...]
Deborah joins mentor team at the Seattle Opera
SEATTLE, WA. Deborah will serve as a Librettist Mentor to the Seattle Opera’s 2024- 25 Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, with composers Laura Kaminsky and Zach Redler and librettist Jerre [...]
Deborah is appointed as a Fulbright Specialist by US. State Dept.
WASHINGTON DC; February 9, 2024. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning has placed Deborah Brevoort on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for [...]
No Passport Press Publishes 2nd edition of The Women of Lockerbie & The Comfort Team
April 2024: The second edition of Deborah’s two-play volume was released by No Passport Press featuring original cover artwork by Roberta Levitow.
OPERA America Awards Deborah the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize.
June 30, 2023 (New York) — OPERA America is pleased to announce the 2023 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize recipient, Deborah Brevoort. Conceived and funded by acclaimed librettist and lyricist Mark Campbell, the Prize is [...]
Deborah is the Librettist Mentor for WNO’s 2023 AOI project
MARCH 2023; WASHINGTON DC. Deborah will serve as the 2023 Librettist Mentor to Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative at the Kennedy Center, with Kamala Sankaram who will serve as [...]
THE KNOCK to have stage premiere at Cincinnati Opera in 2023
Cincinnati Opera’s 2023 Summer Festival will present favorite works while also elevating new voices and fresh perspectives, said artistic director Evans Mirageas. Next summer, four productions will be mounted in [...]
QUAMINO’S MAP to premiere at Chicago Opera Theater in 2022
CHICAGO, IL: Chicago Opera Theater (COT) announced their 2021 season today. Included in the lineup is QUAMINO’S MAP, a new full-length opera commissioned by COT, with a libretto by Deborah [...]
