Deborah Artman is a writer, editor and wordsmith.
She has worked in opera, publishing, education, theater, radio and film and with composers, directors, performers and visual artists, to name just a few. Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous national journals, including American Short Fiction, Puerto del Sol and the New York Times Magazine.
A long-time collaborator with Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, January 2018 marked the world premiere of the chamber version of Artman and Gordon’s opera Acquanetta, featured in New York’s “bracingly innovative” opera-theater Prototype Festival. Her libretti for the oratorios Shelter and Lost Objects had their U.S. premieres at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and have been performed around the world.
Among her awards are ASCAP Plus Awards, a 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, and her CDs Shelter and Acquanetta (forthcoming) are available from Cantaloupe Records.
A former assistant to Senior Editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at Doubleday Publishers, Artman has a wide-ranging career as a freelance editor and currently teaches writing at the University of Hartford/Hartford Art School MFA Program in Photography. – DeborahArtman.com
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Stage Manager | Nonsectarian Conversations with the Dead | 1985-86 Season |