Deborah's play End Days was awarded The American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation in March, 2008. It premiered in October 2007 at Florida Stage, where The Last Schwartz and The Gulf of Westchester both debuted. Through the National New Play Network, End Days was also produced at The Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis in February, and will be at The Vineyard Playhouse in Martha's Vineyard and Curious Theatre in Denver this summer. It will play at Seattle Public Theatre, People's Light and Theatre, and Salt Lake Acting Company in 2009. The acting editions of End Days, The Last Schwartz, and Out of Sterno will soon be published by Samuel French.

The Last Schwartz was nominated for a Carbonell Award for Best New Work and was published by Smith and Kraus in Women Playwrights, the Best Plays of 2003. It is currently enjoying a six month run at The Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, CA and is slated to open Off-Broadway in the fall of 2008. It has received numerous productions around the country, including at The Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, CA where it starred Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker.

Out of Sterno was workshopped at The Cherry Lane Alternative in New York City. It will receive its world premiere at Portland Stage in Portland, ME in March of 2009.

The Gulf of Westchester, commissioned by Florida Stage and the National New Play Network, received its world premiere at Florida Stage in June of 2004.

Deborah is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was also a Playwright-in-Residence and where her play Fortune was produced. Fortune opened at The Marin Theatre Company in January of 2005, and has had several productions in California and Florida.

Deborah's ten-minute play The Record was commissioned for Juilliard's Centennial celebration, where it played in October 2005. It is published by Smith and Kraus in The Best 10 Minute Plays of 2005. Saturday was produced in 2005 in the City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival. The Prom was produced in 2003 by City Theatre's Short Cuts School Tour.

Deborah is a two-time recipient of the LeCompte du Nouy grant from The Lincoln Center Foundation. Her plays have been developed at The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Missoula Colony, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program, New Georges and The Lark Play Development Center. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.