20: Spinning Stories with Deborah Yarchun, Playwright
Talking Theater
English - November 02, 2017 12:09 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Business Careers acting actor actorsequity actress arts broadway directing director offbroadway playwright Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Deborah Yarchun is a New York City playwright from Austin, Texas.
Her honors include two Jerome Fellowships, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award for The Man in the Sukkah, the Kernodle New Play Award for Tectonic Mélange, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, and the Iowa Art Fellowship.
Deborah's plays have been developed at places including Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Harmony Project, Jewish Plays Project, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, TheatreSquared, and Williams Street Rep, where her new play, Bombers Moon will be produced next summer in July and August 2018.
She is a 2017-2018 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the Fall 2017 Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts.
Deborah earned her Bachelor’s degree in screenwriting and playwriting at Drexel University and her MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa.
Deborah shares with Marc about spinning stories wildly out of various starting points and ideas, her writing process and attraction to intimate dramas, how aspiring writers can improve their craft, and her newest plays developed at the William Inge Center for the Arts and as a Dramatists Guild Fellow.