Deborah Brevoort writes plays, musicals and operas. In 2023, she was awarded the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize from Opera America. She is a Librettist Mentor in the American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development program and at the Seattle Opera. She is a Fulbright Specialist in theatre, musical theatre and opera with the US State Department and will lead the first-ever opera workshop in South Korea at the Seoul Institute for the Arts in January.

She’s written 10 opera librettos which were commissioned and produced by leading U.S. companies such as Glimmerglass, Cincinnati Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Metropolitan Museum of Art and others. A recording of Steal a Pencil for Me, with Gerald Cohen, was just released by Sono Luminus, available here: https://www.sonoluminus.com.

Website: www.Deborahbrevoort.com

"I’m excited to learn about opera practices in other countries; it enriches my work as a librettist and educator. The biggest challenges facing artists in the US are funding losses for the arts & new works. How do we survive and help young artists enter a field with fewer resources and opportunities? Audiences are younger post-Covid. Story is more important to them than for older audiences, making the librettist more important and prominent. These changes pose unique challenges to companies creating new opera in the US."