Deborah Brevoort is an American playwright, librettist and lyricist best known for her play The Women of Lockerbie. She teaches creative writing at several universities.
Brevoort was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Virginia and Gordon Brevoort. She is the oldest of three children. She graduated from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She attended Kent State University, where she received a BA in English and political science, and an MA in political science.
Brevoort moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1979. She worked in Alaskan politics, serving as a special assistant to Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller and Alaska State Senator Frank Ferguson. In 1983 she became the producing director of Perseverance Theatre and an actor in the company.
Brevoort served as an artistic mentor to the NBO Musical Theatre festival in Nairobi, Kenya where she mentored new musicals written by Kenyan composers and writers. She also served as the Librettist Mentor for the Seattle Opera and American Lyric Theater in NYC in 2025. She was the 2024 Librettist Mentor for the American Opera Initiative at the Washington National Opera. In 2024 she was appointed a Fulbright Specialist in theatre, musical theatre and opera by the US State Dept., and conducted an opera writing workshop at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea in 2025. She teaches in the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program.
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