Bang on a Can

Deborah Artman is a poet, fiction writer, librettist and playwright who collaborates often with artists in other media. Recent projects include the libretto for "Lost Objects," an oratorio by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, which premiered at the Dresden Music Festival in Germany in May 2001 and was simultaneously released on CD (Atlantic Records). In 2000, Deborah interviewed six a capella singers and gathered the text for "Keeper," a choral piece by Julia Wolfe that premiered at the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Also in 2000, Deborah was dramaturg and cowriter of "The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln," a theater piece by Jenny Romaine with puppets, actors, text and song, that sold out in its run at La MaMa in New York City and continues to tour the United States. Among her awards are a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)fellowship in fiction, a Special Opportunity Stipend Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts/NYFA, and fiction fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The MacDowell Colony. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and her prose poems in "bite to eat place: The 1995 Redwood Coast Press Anthology" were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Deborah is currently working on a novel to be published by Harmony Books in 2004.