An almost-life-long theater professional, Deborah Magid suddenly started playwrighting and composing four years ago, and has written more than 20 operas, musicals, straight plays, short plays, and commissions, so far*. She has performed in venues including Broadway, Santa Fe Opera, and the Melbourne International Fringe Festival, and has done pretty much every theater task (acting, singing, dancing, directing, producing, teaching/coaching, costumes, sound, lights, props, box office, grantswriting, PR, choreography, musical arrangement, puppetry, ushering, house management, reviewing, and, of course, attending).
This blog addresses every aspect of theater through "the prism of a very contemporary psychology"** and invites a lively discourse. Welcome!
For more information on Deborah Magid's work, please visit her website.
*Her first 10-minute play was a Heideman Award finalist and won two competitions (one local, one national), the second seeded her first full-length play (recently read at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in Chicago), her chamber opera won her first Cleveland Public Theatre workshop grant (CPT has granted her work five times thus far), and she was invited into the Cleveland Play House Playwrights' Unit on the strength of the second draft of her first musical.
**Seth Gordon
