Debbie Slevin
Debbie Slevin
Debbie Slevin is a director, playwright, and freelance writer, after many years in Educational Theater. She conceived of and is co-producing THE APRON STRINGS PROJECT in Riverhead, NY, a crowd-sourced theatrical production based on a vintage apron collection. (May 2-4, 2014) She most recently produced THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown at Guild Hall in East Hampton, starring Julie Reiber and Matt DeAngelis. Her play GATE B23:CARRY-ON BAGGAGE was a 2012 selection for WINTERFEST, Manhattan Repertory Theater’s winter play festival and a selection of the 2010 International Fringe Festival, held in NYC.
In the fall of 2008 she directed and co-produced the first NYC revival of SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, by Jason Robert Brown. Her play “December Duet,” produced in October 2008, was part of a series of one-acts called StreetMeet that played at the Chernuchin Theater in NYC to a sold-out audience. She also directed “The Orientation,” by Kellie Arens, part of an evening of two one-act plays called “BOXED IN” at the Producer’s Club in Manhattan, May of 2008. She is a regular contributor to Dan’s Papers, the premier entertainment newspaper for The Hamptons and her writing has appeared in Essence Magazine, Woman’s World, Lifestyles, Reform Judaism, and The Record, northern New Jersey’s daily newspaper. She was a staff writer for The Jewish Standard, a New Jersey weekly, and a columnist for DogWatch, a canine health newsletter from Cornell University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, where she was the voice of a twelve year old Cairn Terrier.
She has interviewed a wide range of people, from well-known political figures Mario Cuomo and Leah Rabin, to popular authors such as Susan Isaacs, Anita Diamant, and Amy Bloom, with a vast assortment of local heroes in between. She has written a new play about Mark Twain’s women and two novels. She has also been an extra in one major motion picture!