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Associate Artistic Director and director of Patron Services, Deborah has been a member of the Lamb’s resident ensemble since 1979. Originally from the East Coast, she has lived all over the United States and studied music and theatre at San Francisco State University. With over 200 productions to her credit, she is a seven-time recipient of the San Diego Theatre Critics’ Circle’s Craig Noel Award and has been honored with Backstage West and numerous Patte awards for performance, original music, sound design. At Lamb’s Deborah has performed in over 160 productions, directed over 70 productions, sound designed, written original music, or musically directed over 80 productions. Deborah and her husband, Producing Artistic Director Robert Smyth, and their buddy "Banjo Billy" make their home in Coronado.
Performer:
- Lamb's Valentine's Cabaret( 2020 )
- Babette's Feast( 2020 )
- Lamb's Christmas Cabaret( 2019 )
- Festival of Christmas - It's Christmas and it's LIVE!( 2019 )
- Lamb's Gospel Cabaret( 2019 )
- Ring Round the Moon( 2019 )
- Cabaret - Classics of the '50s, '60s, 70's, & '80s( 2019 )
- Irish Cabaret( 2019 )
- Lamb's Valentine's Cabaret( 2019 )
- A Jewel in the Crown City ( 2019 )
- Persuasion( 2018 )
- Cabaret( 2018 )
- Cabaret( 2018 )
- Once the Musical( 2018 )
- Lamb's Directors Coffee & Conversation( 2018 )
- Noises Off( 2018 )
- Smoke on the Mountain - At the AVO Playhouse, Vista( 2018 )
- Lamb's Cabaret - Songs of Love and Laughter( 2018 )
- Smoke on the Mountain Encore Performance( 2018 )
- An American Christmas 1917 Feast and Celebration U.S. Grant Hotel( 2017 )
- Cabaret - Songs We Love( 2017 )
- Smoke on the Mountain( 2017 )
- Wine, Women, & Song( 2017 )
- Silent Sky( 2017 )
- Shadowlands( 2017 )
- An American Christmas 1916 Feast and Celebration U.S Grant Hotel( 2016 )
- Lamb's Cabaret( 2016 )
- Dinner With Marlene( 2016 )
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Horton Grand Theatre( 2016 )
- An American Christmas 1915 Feast and Celebration US Grant Hotel( 2015 )
- OZ( 2015 )
- You Can't Take It With You( 2015 )
- An American Christmas 1914 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2014 )
- Les Miserables( 2014 )
- Quilters( 2014 )
- Fiddler on the Roof The Lyceum Theatre( 2014 )
- An American Christmas 1913 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2013 )
- Wit( 2013 )
- Fiddler On The Roof( 2013 )
- An American Christmas 1912 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2012 )
- An American Christmas 1911 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2011 )
- The Servant of Two Masters( 2011 )
- Till We Have Faces Horton Grand Theatre( 2011 )
- Steel Magnolias( 2011 )
- The Glory Man - Encore Performance( 2011 )
- An American Christmas 1910 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2010 )
- The Glory Man( 2010 )
- Smoke on the Mountain( 2010 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2009 )
- Joyful Noise( 2009 )
- The Glass Menagerie( 2009 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2008 )
- The Light In The Piazza( 2008 )
- Boomers at the Horton Grand( 2008 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2007 )
- An Ideal Husband( 2007 )
- Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat( 2007 )
- The Secret Garden( 2007 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2006 )
- Rehearsal For Murder( 2006 )
- Into The Woods( 2006 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2005 )
- Pump Boys And Dinettes( 2005 )
- Cold Comfort Farm( 2005 )
- Metamorphoses( 2005 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2004 )
- Smoke On The Mountain - Joan Croc Center( 2004 )
- The Great Divorce( 2004 )
- Hamlet( 2004 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2003 )
- The Boys Next Door( 2003 )
- Private Lives( 2003 )
- 1776 - Lyceum Theatre( 2003 )
- An American Christmas 1902 Feast & Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2002 )
- 1776( 2002 )
- Deep River( 2002 )
- Godspell( 2002 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Angel's Arms( 2001 )
- Tarantara! Tarantara!( 2001 )
- Boomers( 2001 )
- Quilters( 2001 )
- Uncle Vanya( 2001 )
- Aunt Agatha's Christmas Tea at the Hotel del Coronado( 2000 )
- An American Christmas 1900 Feast & Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2000 )
- Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Lyceum Space( 2000 )
- Joyful Noise at the Lamb's Theatre New York, New York( 2000 )
- An American Christmas 1899 Feast & Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 1999 )
- Joyful Noise( 1999 )
- Till We Have Faces( 1999 )
- Smoke On The Mountain California Center for the Arts, Escondido( 1999 )
- My Fair Lady( 1999 )
- Festival Of Christmas - A Christmas Waltz( 1998 )
- The Sneeze( 1998 )
- The Secret Garden( 1998 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 1997 )
- You Can't Take It WIth You( 1997 )
- A Woman Of No Inportance( 1997 )
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood( 1997 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 1996 )
- Cleopatra's Wake( 1996 )
- Boomers at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre( 1996 )
- Forgiving Typhoid Mary( 1996 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 1995 )
- Festival Of Christmas - It's Christmas and It's Live( 1995 )
- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame( 1995 )
- A Midsummer Night's Dream( 1995 )
- Tintypes( 1995 )
- The Miracle Worker( 1995 )
- She Loves Me( 1995 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 1994 )
- Pippin( 1994 )
- Edith Stein( 1994 )
- An American Christmas - at Granger Hall( 1993 )
- Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Lyceum Space Theatre( 1993 )
- Becoming Memories( 1993 )
- Smoke On The Mountain( 1993 )
- Festival Of Christmas - A Cristmas Waltz( 1992 )
- Smoke On The Mountain( 1992 )
- The Utter Glory Of Morrissey Hall( 1992 )
- The Boys Next Door( 1992 )
- Johns Gospel - Lyceum( 1992 )
- Quilters( 1992 )
- Festival Of Christmas - The Lake Forest Prophecy( 1991 )
- Quilters( 1991 )
- The Foreigner - Lyceum Space( 1991 )
- The Trip To Bountiful( 1991 )
- The Boys Next Door( 1991 )
- Festival Of Christmas - It's Christmas and It's Live( 1990 )
- The Chalk Garden( 1990 )
- The Wind In The Willows( 1990 )
- An Ideal Husband( 1990 )
- Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Lyceum Space Theatre( 1990 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Belinda and the Gifts of the Christ Child( 1989 )
- Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat( 1989 )
- The Diary Of Anne Frank( 1989 )
- Much Ado About Nothing( 1989 )
- Festival Of Christmas - The Perfect Christmas( 1988 )
- Kilts( 1988 )
- The Book of the Dun Cow( 1988 )
- Saint Joan( 1988 )
- The Foreigner( 1988 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Angel's Arms( 1987 )
- Godspell( 1987 )
- Dracula( 1987 )
- Dames At Sea( 1987 )
- Tally's Folly( 1987 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Once Upon A Time...( 1986 )
- Oklahoma Rigs( 1986 )
- Spoon River Anthology( 1986 )
- The Diviners( 1986 )
- 1776( 1986 )
- Festival Of Christmas - A Christmas Waltz( 1985 )
- Fiddler On The Roof( 1985 )
- Once Upon A Mattress( 1985 )
- Waking Dreams( 1985 )
- The Two Gentlemen Of Verona( 1985 )
- The Taming of the Shrew( 1984 )
- A Proud Look, A Lying Tongue( 1984 )
- Tintypes( 1984 )
- The Diary of Adam and Eve( 1984 )
- A Phoenix Too Frequent( 1984 )
- West Side Story( 1984 )
- Festival Of Christmas - A Renaissance Christmas( 1983 )
- Journey - An In-Flight Musical Review( 1983 )
- The Miracle Worker( 1983 )
- Deep River( 1983 )
- Charley's Aunt( 1983 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Angel's Arms( 1982 )
- Pilgrim on Tour( 1982 )
- Godspell( 1982 )
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame( 1982 )
- Arms and the Man( 1982 )
- Dr. Faustus( 1982 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Once Upon A Time...( 1981 )
- Shake The Country( 1981 )
- Becket( 1981 )
- Sentenced To Life( 1981 )
- A Midsummer Night's Dream( 1981 )
- Festival Of Christmas - A Christmas Waltz( 1980 )
- The Madwoman of Chaillot( 1980 )
- Pilgrim( 1980 )
- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown( 1980 )
:
- Edith Stein( 1994 )
Choreographer:
- A Christmas Carol( 2022 )
- A Christmas Carol( 2021 )
- Chaps!( 2019 )
- Twelfth Night( 2014 )
- Quilters( 2014 )
- 1776 - Lyceum Theatre( 2003 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 2003 )
- 1776( 2002 )
- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown( 2000 )
- Ring Round The Moon( 2000 )
- The Gifts Of The Magi at the Hahn Cosompolitan( 1996 )
- Chaps at the Hahn Cosmopolitan( 1996 )
- Chaps( 1996 )
- Pump Boys and Dinettes at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre( 1994 )
- Pump Boys And Dinettes( 1994 )
- Alice In Concert( 1993 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 1991 )
- Johnny Pye And The FoolKiller( 1990 )
- 1776( 1986 )
- Ring Round The Moon( 1985 )
Choreography:
- Ring Round the Moon( 2019 )
Composed, Arranged, and Musically Directed:
- The Servant of Two Masters( 2011 )
Directed and Choreographed :
- Alice( 2020 )
- 1776 - Lyceum Theatre( 2003 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 2003 )
- 1776( 2002 )
- The Gifts Of The Magi at the Hahn Cosompolitan( 1996 )
- Pump Boys and Dinettes at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre( 1994 )
- Pump Boys And Dinettes( 1994 )
- Alice In Concert( 1993 )
- Johnny Pye And The FoolKiller( 1990 )
- 1776( 1986 )
Director:
- Festival of Christmas - It's Christmas and it's LIVE!( 2019 )
- Ring Round the Moon( 2019 )
- A Jewel in the Crown City ( 2019 )
- Camping with Henry and Tom( 2018 )
- Big Fish( 2017 )
- Equivocation( 2016 )
- Festival of Christmas - All I Want For Christmas( 2015 )
- Freud's Last Session ( 2015 )
- West Side Story( 2015 )
- Freud's Last Session at the HGT( 2015 )
- Festival of Christmas - Northern Lights( 2014 )
- The 39 Steps at The Horton Grand( 2013 )
- The 39 Steps( 2013 )
- Fiddler On The Roof( 2013 )
- Damien( 2013 )
- Brownie Points( 2012 )
- The Music Man( 2011 )
- Festival Of Christmas - It’s Christmas And It’s Live!( 2010 )
- The Rivalry( 2010 )
- An Inspector Calls( 2010 )
- Pump Boys and Dinettes - Horton Grand Theatre( 2010 )
- Leaving Iowa( 2009 )
- The Fantasticks( 2009 )
- The Voysey Inheritance( 2008 )
- Enchanted April( 2007 )
- Festival Of Christmas - All I Want for Christmas( 2006 )
- Life X3( 2006 )
- Winslow Boy( 2005 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Northern Lights( 2004 )
- Art( 2004 )
- South Pacific( 2004 )
- Festival Of Christmas - It's Christmas and It's Live( 2003 )
- 1776 - Lyceum Theatre( 2003 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 2003 )
- 1776( 2002 )
- A Man For All Seasons( 2002 )
- Festival Of Christmas - The Perfect Christmas( 2000 )
- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown( 2000 )
- Damien( 2000 )
- Ring Round The Moon( 2000 )
- Oklahoma Rigs( 1999 )
- The Sneeze( 1998 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Northern Lights( 1997 )
- The Gifts Of The Magi at the Hahn Cosompolitan( 1996 )
- Chaps at the Hahn Cosmopolitan( 1996 )
- Festival Of Christmas - It's Christmas and It's Live( 1995 )
- Pump Boys and Dinettes at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre( 1994 )
- Pump Boys And Dinettes( 1994 )
- Alice In Concert( 1993 )
- Sleuth - Lyceum Space( 1992 )
- Steel Magnolias( 1992 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 1991 )
- Traveler In The Dark( 1991 )
- Johnny Pye And The FoolKiller( 1990 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 1988 )
- A Man For All Seasons( 1987 )
- Spoon River Anthology( 1986 )
- 1776( 1986 )
- Ring Round The Moon( 1985 )
Music Complied, Arranged, and Directed:
- The Glory Man( 2010 )
Music Direction and original music:
- Babette's Feast( 2020 )
Musical Coordination:
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2006 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2004 )
Musical Direction:
- An American Christmas 1917 Feast and Celebration U.S. Grant Hotel( 2017 )
- An American Christmas 1916 Feast and Celebration U.S Grant Hotel( 2016 )
- An American Christmas 1915 Feast and Celebration US Grant Hotel( 2015 )
- An American Christmas 1914 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2014 )
- An American Christmas 1913 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2013 )
- An American Christmas 1912 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2012 )
- An American Christmas 1911 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2011 )
- An American Christmas 1910 Feast and Celebration Hotel del Coronado( 2010 )
- Pump Boys and Dinettes - Horton Grand Theatre( 2010 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2009 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2008 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2005 )
- An American Christmas - at Hotel del Coronado( 2004 )
- Hometown Christmas - Hotel Pattee Perry, Iowa( 2004 )
- Chaps( 1996 )
- Johns Gospel - Lyceum( 1992 )
- Cotton Patch Gospel( 1991 )
Musical Direction and Arrangements:
- Private Lives( 2003 )
Original composition and arrangement of traditional Russian Folksongs:
- Uncle Vanya( 2001 )
Original Music :
- Enchanted April( 2007 )
- Rehearsal For Murder( 2006 )
- Cold Comfort Farm( 2005 )
- Deep River( 2002 )
Original Music & Sound Design:
- Silent Sky( 2017 )
- Shadowlands( 2017 )
- Equivocation( 2016 )
- The Miracle Worker( 2016 )
- The Book of the Dun Cow( 2011 )
- The Rivalry( 2010 )
- The Glass Menagerie( 2009 )
- Life X3( 2006 )
- Winslow Boy( 2005 )
- Metamorphoses( 2005 )
- The Great Divorce( 2004 )
- Hamlet( 2004 )
- Detective Story( 2003 )
- Dr. Faustus( 2001 )
- Dracula( 2000 )
- Till We Have Faces( 1999 )
- Cyrano De Bergerac( 1996 )
- Forgiving Typhoid Mary( 1996 )
- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame( 1995 )
- The Miracle Worker( 1995 )
- Edith Stein( 1994 )
- The Elephant Man( 1993 )
- The Diary Of Anne Frank( 1989 )
Original Music / Music Arranged and Directed by:
- Flight( 1998 )
- Becoming Memories( 1993 )
- Johns Gospel - Lyceum( 1992 )
Property Master:
- Becket( 1981 )
- The Madwoman of Chaillot( 1980 )
Sound Design:
- BASKERVILLE( 2022 )
- Noises Off( 2018 )
- The Explorers Club( 2017 )
- Beau Jest( 2017 )
- Festival of Christmas - Angel's Arms( 2016 )
- Dinner With Marlene( 2016 )
- OZ( 2015 )
- Freud's Last Session ( 2015 )
- Freud's Last Session at the HGT( 2015 )
- The 39 Steps at The Horton Grand( 2013 )
- The 39 Steps( 2013 )
- Damien( 2013 )
- Around the World In 80 Days( 2012 )
- See How They Run( 2012 )
- Joe vs The Volcano( 2012 )
- The Glory Man - Encore Performance( 2011 )
- The Glory Man( 2010 )
- Harvey( 2010 )
- An Inspector Calls( 2010 )
- Joyful Noise( 2009 )
- Leaving Iowa( 2009 )
- Festival Of Christmas - Angel's Arms( 2008 )
- Pretty Fire( 2008 )
- The Voysey Inheritance( 2008 )
- Five Cups Of Coffee( 2006 )
- Art( 2004 )
- A Divine Comedy( 2003 )
- A Man For All Seasons( 2002 )
- Ring Round The Moon( 2000 )
- The Diviners( 1998 )
- Traveler In The Dark( 1991 )
Sound Design and Musical Arrangements:
- Ring Round the Moon( 2019 )
Stage Manager:
- Beau Jest( 2017 )
Stage Manager (Nov 7-20):
- Equivocation( 2016 )