Deborah Yarchun

Deborah Yarchun is a New York City-based playwright. Her play A Pickle was the fastest-selling show in the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Biography
Deborah Yarchun was born in New Jersey and grew up primarily in Austin, Texas. Her play Freezeframe won the 2006 Young Playwrights competition founded by Stephen Sondheim. Yarchun attended Drexel University in Philadelphia and received an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Iowa. She later moved to Minneapolis as a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center and then to New York City.
Awards
Yarchun has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:
* Jerome Fellowship (The Playwrights’ Center)
* an EST/Sloan Commission
* The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award
* the Kernodle New Play Award
* Tennessee Williams Scholarship
* the University of Iowa’s Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award
* an Iowa Arts Fellowship.
Works
* Freezeframe (2005)
* Portmanteaux (2009)
* Painted Desert (2011)
* Spinal Alignment (2011)
* Portrait of an Artist from the Perspective of His Pears, or Luscious Butts (2012)
* The Man in the Sukkah (2012)
* Perception Play (2013)
* The Aleph Complex (2013)
* The Starfire Dance (2013)
* Bomber's Moon (2014)
* Great White (2014)
* Tectonic Mélange (2014)
* A Pickle (2015)