| Deborah
Lawlor was active as a dancer, choreographer and actor in New York’s
"Downtown" scene in the 1960’s, acting frequently at the legendary Cafe
Cino among other places, and dancing in the notorious Judson Church Workshop Series. She
then embarked on an extended period of creative study, book translation (from French, in
the fields of Egyptology and indology) and "regional" theatre in South India,
France and Australia. In 1986 she relocated to Los Angeles and began producing, as well as
acting in and directing, plays. The first of these was highly acclaimed evening of four
one-acts by Tennessee Williams called Early Tennessee. In 1990 she and Stephen Sachs
cofounded the Fountain Theatre, which is now in its eighth full season of theatrical and
dance events. In 1997, Deborah was honored by the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival with
the "Rainbow Award" for produscing multicultural events. Deborah is responsible
for the Fountain’s extensive dance presentations, which now include over 200 Flamenco
presentations, as well as for the Fountain’s Williams Festival, in 1996, directing
Lord Byron’s Love Letter and the Strangest Kind of Romance and acting in I Can’t
Imagine Tomorrow. Currently running at the Fountain is Declarations! Love Letters of the
Great Romantics-in Envelopes of Music & Dance, conceived and directed by Deborah, with
choreography by Tamica Washington. Declarations is Deborah’s fifth original
dance/theatre extravaganza. The 1995 season included The Women of Guernica, Deborah’s
flamenco-based adaptation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women, which she also directed.
She returned to the Williams one-acts at venues such as the intimate Fountain Theatre, the
mid-sized Ivar Theatre in Hollywood and the 1200-seat John Anson Ford Amphitheater. In
addition, she has produced at the Fountain Theatre dozens of multi-ethnic dance concerts,
including such varied dance forms as Brazalian, Peruvian, East Indian, Modern, Jazz,
Jazz-Tap, Spanish Classical, and Folk Dance. She wrote and directed the 1995 acclaimed
flamenco dance-drama, The Women of Guernica, based on Euripides’ The Trojan Women set
in Spain, 1937. In 1996, she directed and starred in 4 x Tennessee (Four Williams
one-acts). For 1997, she’ll be directing the World Premiere of Richard Sewell’s
The Poet’s Notebook and producing Sweet Nothing in My Ear as well as a full season of
Dance.
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