Deborah Yarchun
Deborah Yarchun is a New York City-based playwright. Her play A Pickle[1] was the fastest-selling show in the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival.[2]
Biography[edit]
Deborah Yarchun was born in New Jersey and grew up primarily in Austin, Texas.[3] Yarchun attended Drexel University[4] and received an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa.[5] She later moved to Minneapolis as a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center and then to New York City.
Her play Freezeframe won the 2006 Young Playwrights competition founded by Stephen Sondheim,[6] and played off-Broadway.[7] In 2012, her play, The Man in the Sukkah won the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award.[5]
Awards[edit]
Yarchun has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:
- Jerome Fellowship (The Playwrights’ Center)
- an EST/Sloan Commission
- The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award[8]
- the Kernodle New Play Award
- Tennessee Williams Scholarship
- the University of Iowa’s Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award
- an Iowa Arts Fellowship.
Works[edit]
- Freezeframe (2005)
- Portmanteaux (2009)[9]
- Painted Desert (2011)
- Spinal Alignment (2011)
- Portrait of an Artist from the Perspective of His Pears, or Luscious Butts (2012)
- The Man in the Sukkah (2012)
- Perception Play (2013)
- The Aleph Complex (2013)
- The Starfire Dance (2013)
- Bomber's Moon (2014)
- Great White (2014)
- Tectonic Mélange (2014)
- A Pickle (2015)
References[edit]
- ↑ Rosenblum, Gail (August 5, 2017). "Local pickle maker gets rejected from Minnesota State Fair competition, wins play". Star Tribune. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
- ↑ Appelbaum, Hanne (August 15, 2017). "Fringe File, #15: Sold-Out Performances". Twin Cities Arts Reader. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ↑ Yarchun, Deborah. "About". Deborah Yarchun, Playwright. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ↑ Parker, Akweli (2 June 2005). "Now Playing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 23 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wise, Stephanie (14 April 2012). "National Theater Festival Honors UI Students for Their Plays". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Retrieved 23 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Drexel University. "Opening of Westphal Student's Award-Winning Play". Drexel University. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Insider's View". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 9 February 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Kennedy Center. "The Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Rindfuss, Bryan (30 January 2014). "10 Things You Have to Do This WEekend". San Antonio Current. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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- ↑ Yarchun, Deborah. "Genesis: Why Write Jewish Plays?—A Talmudic Inquiry". Howlround. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Arkansas, New Play Fest. "Playwright Spotlight: Deborah Yarchun". Arkansas New Play Festival. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Yarchun, Deborah. "Crafting A Participatory Performance Space". TCG Circle. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Svich, Caridad (2016). Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field. New York, NY: Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 978-1-55936-864-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Everett, Matthew. "Fringe 2017 - Top 20 - #11 - A Pickle". Single White Fringe Geek. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
