As an actor-singer-director-wife-mom, Deborah’s dream of being a multihyphenate started at a young age, when all she wanted in life was to become a singer-farmer. Deborah was thrilled to recently add “playwrite” to the hyphenate with Mamalogues & Other Stories of Being Human, her one woman show that was produced in the Spring of 2023 at Montgomery Theater in Souderton, PA. The overwhelmingly positive response to Mamalogues, inspired her to dig deeper and turn Mamalogues into a full book, which is now nearing completion. Stay tuned for more details!

The first iteration of Mamalogues was birthed while Deborah was pregnant with her eldest daughter in the form of a blog because there was a shit-ton of stuff that happened to her that she had no information on whatsoever and she wanted to alert her tribe to the shit-tons presence. As her daughter got older and she had her second child, the situations, questions and incidents continued to stack up. Since she’s someone who naturally takes a class in everything and even did research on the implications of pot smoking before trying it, she found this devastating. In talking to friends who were months behind her in her parenting journey, she was finding out there was a whole lot of stuff they didn’t know about either. Never being one who could walk past a person with toilet paper trailing from their shoe, she started filling in people she knew immediately on crap they might’ve been in the dark about.

As her daughters grew, so did the questions she found herself wrestling with: not JUST for them, but for herself as well. What did she really believe about religion, God, premarital sex, gender? How did she think through medical decisions for her children where there were no clear standards of care?  What does she do when she realizes that the mental illness she has is inherited and can see the lineage of it in her family tree? How does she answer the big questions that come from those who matter most?