Deborah Voorhees
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/filmmaker/teacher |
| Location | Nogal, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | I’ve lived a colorful life—journalist, filmmaker, writer, editor, teacher, even a Hollywood B-scream starlet and a Playboy Bunny--which has given me much fodder for my writing. Most recently, I have released the indie film Billy Shakespeare, which I wrote and directed, a comedy of errors that asks what if Shakespeare never existed until now? Our Modern Bard is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. I have completed my first novel, "Memoirs of a Hit Man." As a 16-year veteran journalist (most recently with The Dallas Morning News), I have covered a variety of stories: a mother on death row for killing her abusive husband, a schizophrenic psyche patient at the Austin State Hospital (who’s also a nationally known folk artist), the fall of communism through the eyes of a Russian immigrant, a horseback adventure through the Badlands of Mexico (I rode illegally across the border for that story), master African-American muralist John Biggers’ journey through the white art world. I have taught British literature and journalism in New Mexico and Texas, and Acting for Film at ENMU. |
| Interests | Writing, Shakespeare, literature, horses, filmmaking, books |
| Favorite movies | Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love, Othello, Orlando, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, The Importance of Being Ernest |
| Favorite music | Gleewood, Bleeddown, Leonard Cohen, any 1960s anti-war rock and folk songs |
| Favorite books | Richard Wright's Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath & Of Mice and Men, Alice Sebold's Lovely Bones, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Janet Fitch's White Oleander, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven & Feast of All Saints, Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy, William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, anything Shakespeare. |