Deb Margolin is an Americanperformance artist andplaywright. She came to prominence in the 1980s in thefeministpolitical theatre troupeSplit Britches, which she co-founded withLois Weaver andPeggy Shaw.^[1] Margolin has since created a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts,Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.^[2]

Margolin was the recipient of a 1999-2000Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Performance. In 2005, Margolin won theJoseph Kesselring Prize for her play,Three Seconds in the Key, a multi-character play which reflected her own experiences withHodgkin's Disease.

She currently teaches playwrighting and performance as an associate professor atYale University. Her work includesO Yes I Will, a detailed account of her experiences and insights on being undergeneral anaesthesia.

Margolin was forced to revise her 2010 playImagining Madoff after legal threats fromElie Wiesel, who was one ofBernard Madoff's victims and had called Madoff a "scoundrel" but had refused to allow a character representing him and using his name to be used in the play.^[3]

In the 1990s, Margolin participated in the Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence program atTulane University in New Orleans, LA. In 2018, she donated a large quantity of her personal materials such as journals, manuscripts, newspaper articles, flyers, ephemera, poetry, and correspondence to theNewcomb Archives at Tulane, forming the Deb Margolin Collection, which spans the years 1970 to 2016. In the spring of 2020, an exhibit entitled "Deb Margolin's Performance Composition: Writing and Embodying" was shown at Tulane. It focused on Margolin's process of performance composition by displaying her notes and writing (both handwritten and typed) from her work as a university professor, actor, and playwright.^[4]

• Official Website of Deb Margolin

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