Deborah Stein's plays include God Save Gertrude, Wallflower, Bone Portraits, Natasha and the Coat, Heist!, and The Aerodynamics of Accident. Her work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors' Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre at Boston Court, the Guthrie, the Children's Theatre, Seattle Rep, Stages Rep, the Women’s Project, the Wilma Theatre, Azuka Theatre Company, Live Girls!, Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, and Theatre Artaud; in New York at the Public Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Ars Nova; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh (the Traverse) and Prague. For the last ten years, she has created original ensemble works with a number collaborators, including Joseph Chaikin, Dominique Serrand, Lear deBessonet, and most frequently the Pig Iron Theatre Company, with whom she has collaborated since 2000 on six plays including Welcome to Yuba City, Shut Eye, Anodyne, and The Lucia Joyce Cabaret, for which she was nominated for a Barrymore Award for Best New Play. Her writing is published in Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American Poetry of 1996. She has been a resident artist at Hedgebrook, Swarthmore College, Princeton University, the Tofte Lake Center for the Arts, and the Lexington Center, and has taught writing at NYU, Northeastern University, St. Olaf College, Parsons School of Design, and Brown University, where she received her M.F.A. Deborah is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights' Center (2006-2007 and 2007-2008), where she is co-producing director of the Workhaus Collective. She is the recipient of a 2009-2011 Bush Artist Fellowship, a resident artist at HERE, and a member of New Dramatists.

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The Aerodynamics of Accident

Description In 1897, an ambitious young girl crashes to her death in an experimental flying machine. Left to pick up the pieces are a reclusive widow, who won’t leave her house; an upstart professor, who can’t get inside; and the ghost of the dead girl, who haunts them all.

Wallflower

Description When teenage Milena posts angry videos on the internet, she accidentally starts a revolution and all hell breaks loose. By turns comic and tragic, WALLFLOWER asks: what is the relationship between style and violence in today's image-obsessed world? And how has technology redrawn these lines for a new generation?

Bone Portraits

Description In 1895, a hapless inventor stumbles upon a light that burns through skin: in a flash, the X-ray is born. A wild ride of gothic horror, old-time vaudeville, and sweeping romance, BONE PORTRAITS takes us back to this moment of discovery, when the world split open like an atom and nothing was seen the same way again.

God Save Gertrude

Description A play with songs, a concert with characters—call it rock n roll theatre—GOD SAVE GERTRUDE is punk rock riff on Hamlet in which Queen Gertrude is transplanted to a war-torn country a little like Russia and a bit like our own. As the bombs rain down and her coked-up son sells out to MTV, Gertrude sings about her many loves and her many mistakes, hoping to incite one more riot before she goes.