Deborah Grimberg (Playwright) A British playwright now established in New York, Deborah received the Sherrill C. Corwin Metropolitan Theatre Award in 2000 for Cycling Past the Matterhorn. Deborah is also the recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre's the 2003 James Hammerstein Emerging Playwright Award and was also offered EST's Dasha Epstein playwriting fellowship. Deborah's other plays include Screaming Violet, Hellmouth and Wrapped in Gold (2002 New York International Fringe Festival) and The Honey Makers (2003 EST One Act Marathon). In August 2003, Deborah directed Cycling Past The Matterhorn at the New York International Fringe Festival. In 2004, The Honey Makers was produced by EST LA at Stage 52 Playhouse in Los Angeles, her ten-minute play Static was produced by The Invisible Theatre Company at Manhattan Theatre Source and Cycling Past The Matterhorn was produced by The Theatre Group at the University of Detroit, Mercy. This past April, two monologues from Screaming Violet were published in the Smith and Kraus 2005 anthology of comic monologues.
