Who Am I?

Deborah Wallace is an Emmy-nominated Producer, Writer, Director, and Performer working in both film and theatre. She has collaborated as a Producer on many films including the Academy Award nominated, Emmy winning documentary film, Gasland. Deborah produced its sequel Gasland, Part II for HBO, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and went on to win the Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary, Cinema Eye Honors and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Research. In addition, Wallace produced the films The Sky is Pink, Divest, Occupy Sandy, and How To Let Go Of The World And Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change (Released by HBO in 2016), Artists Against Fracking (for Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon), and Brave Girls which premiered at DOCNYC in 2018. She produced and co-wrote, Blood on the Mountain, which was released by Netflix in 2017, honored by the International Documentary Association, and for which she received a second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Documentary. As a performer in the theatre, Wallace has toured nationally and internationally with some of the most acclaimed artists in the world including: Anne Bogart/SITI Company, Ann Hamilton, Richard Foreman, John Zorn, and International WOW Company. She has performed at the Park Avenue Armory, GIFT Festival in Tiblisi, La MaMa, National Sawdust, Borealis Festival, Cafe OTO, the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Cutler-Majestic Theatre, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Meany Center, Hopkins Center, and many others.  As a Director and Playwright, Wallace’s work has been presented at HERE Arts, New Dance Group, Ars Nova, The Ohio Theatre, The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, and ODURep Theatre where she received several awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for achievement in direction and design. Wallace has led workshops and/or been an artist-in-residence at New York Stage and Film, Vassar College, New York University, Grinnell College, Notre Dame, Emerson College, University of Maryland, Barry Art Museum, and Chiang Mai Art Museum.  Wallace is the founder of Time and Space Performance and Movement Research Lab, a research collective focused on Somatic Movement and the Viewpoints method of actor training. Wallace is a proud member of Actors Equity, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Dramatists Guild. Wallace is also a member of the Film Faculty at Old Dominion University where she teaches Intro to Filmmaking, Documentary Production, and Social Justice Documentary.

UPCOMING:

SEVEN ORDINARY LIVES-WIP

RECENT WORKS:

VULCANOLOGY-PNEUHAUS OCTOBER 2024

EAT THESE WORDS-GOODE THEATER AUGUST 2024

CRYPTOMNESIA-BARRY ART MUSEUM JULY 2024

CHRONESTHESIA- BARRY ART MUSEUM JUNE 2024

LOATHING LASTS LONGER-BARRY ART MUSEUM MAY 2024