D Deb Debbie Deborah (2015)

DESCRIPTION
A creepy intruder, a needy boyfriend and a stalled-out career are shaking Deb's already wobbly sense of self. Her latest art assistant gig, and the strange project it entails, just might topple her. D Deb Debbie Deborah is a voyage into a bizarre and unsettling world where losing your identity means losing it all.

CREDITS
Clubbed Thumb - World Premiere Production - NYC, 2015
Written by Jerry Lieblich
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Featuring Kate Benson, Brooke Bloom, Nick Choksi, Geoff Sobelle and Stacey Yen
Set by Brett J. Banakis
Costumes by David Hyman
Lights by Eric Southern
Sound by Brandon Wolcott
Production stage manager Kevin Clutz

PRODUCTION HISTORY
Theater of NOTE - Production - Los Angeles, 2016
Directed by Doug Oliphant
Featuring Kerr Lordygan, Alina Phelan, Greg Nussen, Jenny Soo, and Travis York

Playwrights Horizons / Clubbed Thumb SUPERLAB - Workshop - NYC, 2015
Directed by Oliver Butler

Originally written and developed in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Ken Rus Schmoll and Jenny Schwartz, co-chairs
Directed by Kareem Fahmy

Published in Theater Forum, 2016
Translated into German by Hannes Becker

PRESS
"Jerry Lieblich’s dizzyingly clever new play…Directed with deceptively easygoing agility by Lee Sunday Evans…subverts our faith in fixed identities through simple but sly theatrical devices……Five cast members…melt and morph before our eyes with a splendidly assured lack of assurance…You’ll develop a case of existential wooziness that brings to mind ‘Vertigo’…Mr. Lieblich’s dramatic intentions are always clear.”
– Ben Brantley, The New York Times - Critic’s Pick

“D Deb Debbie Deborah boasts moments of slippery gorgeousness, some of which have to be seen to be believed…Lieblich's trickery is rooted in a deep understanding of what live performance makes possible…Lieblich has managed the ultimate bit of theatrical prestidigitation. Shazam, folks! Out of nowhere, he appears on the scene.”
– Helen Shaw, Time Out NY - Four Stars, Critic’s Pick

"A dizzying, dazzling theatrical meditation on the slippery nature of identity…The play is a miraculously nimble comedy about existential anxiety, rendered with tenderness to match its precision and insight…The play seems to suggest that identity, whether personal or artistic (if the two can even be separated), is less a fixed, absolute thing, and more a kind of collaboration that requires other people for its completion.”
— Sarah Lunnie, Culturebot