Deborah Pearson


Deborah Pearson is a British and Canadian theatre producer, playwright, librettist and live artist born in Toronto, Canada.

Biography

She is founder and co-director of Forest Fringe, winner of the 2009 Peter Brook Empty Space Award, a Fringe First and three Herald Angels. In 2010 she won a Herald Angel for her solo show Like You Were Before at the Edinburgh Fringe and was shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for Innovation and the Arches Brick Award. That year she was also listed as one of the 100 most influential people in UK theatre along with Forest Fringe co-director Andy Field.
She frequently collaborates with Volcano Theatre in Canada for whom she recently wrote a modern English libretto for Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno renamed A Synonym for Love performed at the Gladstone Hotel with CMC.
In 2012, she curated the inaugural Live Art Series at the SummerWorks Performance Festival in Toronto featuring a 40-day performance installation by performance artist Nina Arsenault. In 2007 she ran an Advice Booth on Brick Lane giving £1 advice with Morgan McBride. This booth was the subject of a documentary by Current TV and has appeared at Latitude Music Festival.

Plays