Deborah Pearson

Deborah Pearson’s work spans playwrighting, directing, live art and visual art. She is founder and a co-director of UK-based curation collective Forest Fringe and winner of several distinctions for her practice and Forest Fringe, including twice being named on the Stage 100 list. Her performances have been staged in over twenty countries across five continents and translated into six languages. Her work includes The Future Show (international tour and book, 2015), History History History (bit teatergarasjen, Théâtre Garonne and international tour, 2016), Inside Bitch (The Royal Court, 2018), The Filibuster (Somerset House and Conde Duque, 2018) and The Talent with Action Hero (Teatro do Bairro Alto, 2022). She holds a PhD on narrative in contemporary performance from Royal Holloway and is an associate research fellow at Birkbeck and Senior Lecturer of Dramaturgy at UAL’s Screen School. Her debut feature film Dream Agency, co-directed with Andy Field and collaboratively written with other artists from Forest Fringe, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022.