Deborah is a 2009 recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting award. Her latest play, Sirens will premiere at The Actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival in February, 2010.

End Days was awarded The American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation in March, 2008. It received its NYC premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre in March, 2009 through an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. It debuted in October, 2007 at Florida Stage, through the National New Play Network and will have received twelve productions by the end of the year. End Days will be listed in the Burns Mantle Yearbook as one of the best regional plays of 2008, and published by Smith and Kraus in The Best Plays of 2008.

The acting editions of End Days, The Last Schwartz, and Out of Sterno are published by Samuel French.

The Last Schwartz was published by Smith and Kraus in Women Playwrights, the Best Plays of 2003. It premiered at Florida Stage where it was nominated for a Carbonell Award for Best New Work and it enjoyed a six-month run at The Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. It has received numerous productions around the country.

Out of Sterno received its world premiere at Portland Stage in ME in March of 2009 with a grant from the Edgerton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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 was one of six playwrights commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville to write Brink, featuring their Apprentice Company at this year's Humana Festival. Other short works: The Record, commissioned for Juilliard's Centennial Celebration, where it played in October 2005 (published by Smith and Kraus in The Best 10 Minute Plays of 2005). Saturday, produced in 2005 in the City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival. The Prom, produced in 2003 by City Theatre's Short Cuts School Tour.

Other plays include: The Gulf of Westchester (Florida stage/NNPN commission, FL Stage premiere), Random Acts, and Miniatures.

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 , The Lark Play Development Center and Geva Theatre Center. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild.