| DEB HAVENER |
At age 13 Deb was cast in Carnival -- her first
musical at the Mansfield Playhouse. From that
production on, she continued to work the Midwest
and collegiate theater circuit, performing in and
choreographing a number of musicals and stage
productions, including Pirates of Penzance,
Follies, and Oliver! -- for which she won a BOTL
Award for Best Choreography (for horse-whipping
her entire cast into learning a blend of Irish
clogging and tapdancing on top of a dozen rolling
barrels). Her stage work took her to Los Angeles
where she was cast in several less than stellar
productions, including the bumbling whack job of
"Noises Off" with Nathaniel Productions, and the El
Camino version of "Guys and Dolls".
Thank goodness she knew how to wait tables.
And write.
Today, Deb is an award-winning writer and
producer. Recently, she joined with actor/producer
Nolan Gerard Funk to form Midnight Swing
Pictures. Their first feature is the music drama
Midnight Swing, from her 2009 and 2010 Nicholl
Fellowship semi-finalist script.
Some of Deb's projects include writing the horror
feature The Lodge (Oxford Film Festival Winner)
for Brothers Shamus Pictures of LA, co-writing
The Siberian Exchange with Neal Havener for Stink,
Limited's Film Division (UK), and producing the
hip-hop documentary Groove Shack for Martin
Jones Productions (in post in San Francisco and
Columbus).
Deb is a Sundance official entry & semi-finalist,
and finalist for the 2010 Write Movies Int'l Writing
Contest. Her team for the 2009 48-Hour Project
placed in the top 10 in their division with the
fantasy short "Happy Endings" (with wins for Best
Actor and an Honorable Mention for editing).
Deb studied Theater and Dance at the Ohio State
University's BFA program for 3 years before she
decided on the lucrative degree of English.
She has taught screenwriting workshops through
OSU's National Collegiate Arts Programs and
CCSC.
Her short works, "Red Hot Charlie" and "In the
Absence of Chocolate Jimmies", have been
published in volumes 1 and 2 of "Lost Tequila
Weekend", a west coast magazine for literature and
art.
These days she could use a nap.
musical at the Mansfield Playhouse. From that
production on, she continued to work the Midwest
and collegiate theater circuit, performing in and
choreographing a number of musicals and stage
productions, including Pirates of Penzance,
Follies, and Oliver! -- for which she won a BOTL
Award for Best Choreography (for horse-whipping
her entire cast into learning a blend of Irish
clogging and tapdancing on top of a dozen rolling
barrels). Her stage work took her to Los Angeles
where she was cast in several less than stellar
productions, including the bumbling whack job of
"Noises Off" with Nathaniel Productions, and the El
Camino version of "Guys and Dolls".
Thank goodness she knew how to wait tables.
And write.
Today, Deb is an award-winning writer and
producer. Recently, she joined with actor/producer
Nolan Gerard Funk to form Midnight Swing
Pictures. Their first feature is the music drama
Midnight Swing, from her 2009 and 2010 Nicholl
Fellowship semi-finalist script.
Some of Deb's projects include writing the horror
feature The Lodge (Oxford Film Festival Winner)
for Brothers Shamus Pictures of LA, co-writing
The Siberian Exchange with Neal Havener for Stink,
Limited's Film Division (UK), and producing the
hip-hop documentary Groove Shack for Martin
Jones Productions (in post in San Francisco and
Columbus).
Deb is a Sundance official entry & semi-finalist,
and finalist for the 2010 Write Movies Int'l Writing
Contest. Her team for the 2009 48-Hour Project
placed in the top 10 in their division with the
fantasy short "Happy Endings" (with wins for Best
Actor and an Honorable Mention for editing).
Deb studied Theater and Dance at the Ohio State
University's BFA program for 3 years before she
decided on the lucrative degree of English.
She has taught screenwriting workshops through
OSU's National Collegiate Arts Programs and
CCSC.
Her short works, "Red Hot Charlie" and "In the
Absence of Chocolate Jimmies", have been
published in volumes 1 and 2 of "Lost Tequila
Weekend", a west coast magazine for literature and
art.
These days she could use a nap.
WARNING: A lifetime of writing is
decidedly unglamorous. It will turn you into
a nearly-blind hermit with bad posture.
And just try keeping those bra straps up
after a decade of hunching over your
keyboard, ladies.
decidedly unglamorous. It will turn you into
a nearly-blind hermit with bad posture.
And just try keeping those bra straps up
after a decade of hunching over your
keyboard, ladies.
Hey kids, get a room!
