DEBORAH GROSSMAN
Phone/Message (301) 920-1912
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Director -- A Year with Frog and Toad, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Director -- Opera Goes to the Theatre (scenes), Forgotten Opera Company, Alexandria, VA
Director -- Yeomen of the Guard, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge University Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Cambridge, UK
Director -- Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss), semi-staged concert production, Oakland Lyric Opera, Oakland, CA
Director -- The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa), Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA
Director -- The Magic Flute (Mozart), Livermore Valley Opera, Livermore, CA
Director/Chor. -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Pinole Community Players, Pinole, CA
Director -- Man of La Mancha, The Other Opera Company, Bethesda, MD
Director -- An Evening of Operetta, The Other Opera Company
• Cox and Box (Sullivan and Burnand) and Die Fledermaus (Act I Finale)
Director -- The Little Mermaid (musical adaptation for children's theatre), Adventure Theatre, Glen Echo, MD
Director -- Red, She Said by Eliot Byerrum (Premiere), Source Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
Director/Chor. -- H.M.S. Pinafore, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Rockville, MD
Director/Chor. -- Iolanthe, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Director -- Source Theater Company, 11th Annual Washington Theatre Festival
• Interviewing Techniques for the Self-Conscious by Eliot Byerrum [nominated for best new play and best lead actress]
• Executive Leverage (new musical) by Joe Palka and Rory Chalcraft [selected for awards ceremony entertainment]
• Theatre of the Second Amendment by Bob Williams and Eliot Byerrum [selected for the Source Theatre Company 15th Birthday Party entertainment]
Director/Chor. -- H.M.S. Pinafore, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Director South Pacific, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Director -- Source Theater Company, 10th Annual Washington Theatre Festival—Ten-Minute Play Competition:
• Count Insomnia by Jean Huets (Honorable Mention)
• Getting Back by Arthur Lipton
• Something Ventured by Nicole Burton
Choreographer -- Fiddler on the Roof, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, San Francisco, CA
Choreographer -- Candide, Opera Americana, Alexandria, VA
Assistant Director -- Eastern Standard, Source Theatre Company
Assistant Director -- Bricktop (a new musical), American Playwrights Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Assistant Director -- Pump Boys and Dinettes, Horizons Theatre, Washington, D.C.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Producer The Christmas Revels, Washington Revels (2006)
Producer Stage Door Conservatory, Berkeley, CA (1999-2003)
Director -- Opera Goes to the Theatre (scenes), Forgotten Opera Company, Alexandria, VA
Director -- Yeomen of the Guard, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge University Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Cambridge, UK
Director -- Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss), semi-staged concert production, Oakland Lyric Opera, Oakland, CA
Director -- The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa), Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA
Director -- The Magic Flute (Mozart), Livermore Valley Opera, Livermore, CA
Director/Chor. -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Pinole Community Players, Pinole, CA
Director -- Man of La Mancha, The Other Opera Company, Bethesda, MD
Director -- An Evening of Operetta, The Other Opera Company
• Cox and Box (Sullivan and Burnand) and Die Fledermaus (Act I Finale)
Director -- The Little Mermaid (musical adaptation for children's theatre), Adventure Theatre, Glen Echo, MD
Director -- Red, She Said by Eliot Byerrum (Premiere), Source Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
Director/Chor. -- H.M.S. Pinafore, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Rockville, MD
Director/Chor. -- Iolanthe, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Director -- Source Theater Company, 11th Annual Washington Theatre Festival
• Interviewing Techniques for the Self-Conscious by Eliot Byerrum [nominated for best new play and best lead actress]
• Executive Leverage (new musical) by Joe Palka and Rory Chalcraft [selected for awards ceremony entertainment]
• Theatre of the Second Amendment by Bob Williams and Eliot Byerrum [selected for the Source Theatre Company 15th Birthday Party entertainment]
Director/Chor. -- H.M.S. Pinafore, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Director South Pacific, Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Director -- Source Theater Company, 10th Annual Washington Theatre Festival—Ten-Minute Play Competition:
• Count Insomnia by Jean Huets (Honorable Mention)
• Getting Back by Arthur Lipton
• Something Ventured by Nicole Burton
Choreographer -- Fiddler on the Roof, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, San Francisco, CA
Choreographer -- Candide, Opera Americana, Alexandria, VA
Assistant Director -- Eastern Standard, Source Theatre Company
Assistant Director -- Bricktop (a new musical), American Playwrights Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Assistant Director -- Pump Boys and Dinettes, Horizons Theatre, Washington, D.C.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Producer The Christmas Revels, Washington Revels (2006)
Producer Stage Door Conservatory, Berkeley, CA (1999-2003)
Producer/Prod. Coord. The Christmas Revels, San Francisco Bay Revels (1997, 1998, 2002)
Production Coordinator Die Fledermaus, Berkeley Opera, Berkeley, CA (1996)
Producer The Other Opera Company, Bethesda, MD (1992-1994)
Producing Associate Source Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. (1991-1992)
Stage Manager The Pirates of Penzance, Washington Savoyards, Washington, D.C.
Stage Manager The Condensed Mikado, Washington Savoyards, Washington, D.C.
Stage Manager The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky), Cambridge University Opera Society (UK)
Stage Manager Spring Showcase (MFA graduates), American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA
(performances in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City)
Stage Manager La Calisto, San Francisco Opera Center, (AGMA contract - musician’s union)
Stage Manager H.M.S. Pinafore, Lamplighters Musical Theater, San Francisco & Walnut Creek, CA
Stage Manager Me and My Girl, Diablo Light Opera Company, Walnut Creek, CA
Stage Manager The Christmas Revels, California Revels, Oakland, CA
Stage Manager Women and Men: Three One-Act Plays, Stagebridge, Oakland, CA
Stage Manager Oklahoma, Alameda Civic Light Opera, Alameda, CA
Stage Manager A Time for Courage, a new musical based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities,
music by John-Kevin Hilbert, book by Irene Rudoy, Walnut Creek, CA
Stage Manager Il Tabarro and Die Kluge, Oakland Lyric Opera, Oakland, CA
Stage Manager L'Aldimiro (A. Scarlatti), Berkeley Festival, Berkeley, CA
Rehearsal Stage Manager The Christmas Revels, Washington Revels, Washington, D.C.
Music Director / Performance Pianist
Music Man, Jr., Imagination Stage Summer Camp, Rockville, MD
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Emma Donahue), U.S. Premiere, Shee Theatre Company, San Francisco, CA
Into the Woods, Jr., and Scenes from Working, Stage Door Conservatory, Berkeley, CA
Annie Get Your Gun, Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center, Youth Theatre, Berkeley, CA
Once Upon a Mattress, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre
Alice in Concert, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre
Really Rosie, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre
Summer Stock, Surflight Summer Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Kiss Me Kate
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Annie
EDUCATION
Oberlin College, B.A. May 1988 (Magna Cum Laude - Medieval Studies)
(Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Piano & Voice Lessons, Music History/Theory)
Other Skills and Training: Piano Accompanist, Ballet, Voice, Gymnastics, Extensive Choral Experience
(as of October 2008)
