Deborah Chava Singer is originally from San Diego, California where she studied truth with the Mesa College Theatre Company and created, published and performed with the Queer Players (now dissolved). While going to school (in something else) in Toronto, Ontario she remembered what she really wanted most was to be a writer. She currently resides in Vancouver, Washington. Her work has been performed or read on stages in Oregon, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Alaska, California, Ontario, and New York. She is a member of The Playwrights’ Center and an associate member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. She currently resides in Vancouver, Washington.

Plays

Poetry and Prose

Photography and Other Visual Art

Deborah Chava Singer is one of 65 Washington State artists to receive a 2025 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) grant from Artist Trust. Her project is a theatre evening–length collection of shorts and monologues inspired by moments of LGBTQIA2S+ history from the last few decades through now.(Press Release)

(Note: Vancouver, WA is across the river from Portland, OR and not in Canada. Although Deborah lived in Toronto, ON in Canada for two years but that is another story and another life.)

(Also Note: Yes, that Portland, OR. Also, yes, that Canada.)