Biography
Deborah Zoe Laufer's play End Days received the 2007 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Citation. It premiered at Florida Stage, as did The Last Schwartz and The Gulf of Westchester. Samuel French published End Days, The Last Schwartz and Out of Sterno. The Last Schwartz appeared in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003 and recently enjoyed a six-month run at Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. Out of Sterno is receiving its world premiere at Portland Stage Company, Maine. Her other plays, Fortune, Random Acts and Miniatures, have received productions and workshops around the country. Ms. Laufer is a Juilliard graduate, a two-time recipient of the LeCompte du Nouy Award from The Lincoln Center Foundation and a Dramatists Guild member.