Deb’s plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Theatre Lab, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, The Humana Festival, Everyman, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and hundreds of other theaters around the world. The Last Yiddish Speaker won the 2025 Carbonell for Outstanding New Work, the 2024 Jewish Play Prize, a Lortel Alcove commission, and an NNPN rolling world premiere. Other plays include Be Here Now, End Days (ATCA Steinberg Citation), Rooted, Informed Consent (NYTimes critic’s pick), Leveling Up, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz, Sirens, The Three Sisters of Weehawken, Fortune, dozens of short plays, and the musicals, Window Treatment and By Any Other Name, written with composer, Daniel Green. Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and the Lilly Award. She’s a graduate of Juilliard, an alumna of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a member of Honor Roll, and a Dramatists Guild Council member. And she performs standup around NYC. www.deborahzoelaufer.com
