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Deborah Artman is a fiction writer, poet and librettist whose career has been defined by a restless urge to explore new forms and collaborate often with artists in other media.
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Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous national journals, including American Short Fiction, Puerto del Sol and the New York Times Magazine. In addition to Acquanetta, her libretti include Shelter, a music-theater piece with composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2005 Next Wave Festival; Lost Objects, an oratorio that premiered at BAM in 2004; Keeper, a choral piece by Julia Wolfe (2000); and Music for Gracious Living, a music-theater piece for actor and string quartet with music by David Lang (1997).
In 2005, Deborah directed The Pork Chop Wars, a “performance novel” by Laurie Carlos, presented by the University of Texas at Austin. Other theater projects include The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, a theater piece by puppet-artist/chanteuse Jenny Romaine, which has toured internationally and sold out in its run at La MaMa in New York City in 2000, and numerous theater works in New York with performance artists Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley, choreographer Jawole Zollar and others.
Currently she is creating a new libretto for David Lang based on Knut Hamsun’s novel, Hunger; completing a novel, Pleasant Point, Paine Hollow; and collaborating with artist Bill Liebeskind on works on paper. Among her awards are 2007 and 2006 ASCAP Plus Awards, a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction, and fiction fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the MacDowell Colony. Her CD Lost Objects is available through Atlantic Records/Teldec Classics.
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