Deborah Payne Fisk
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | Academic specializing in theatre history and dramatic literature; mother to software designer and entrepreneur, Al3x Payne; mad, crazy horsewoman who dotes on her grey thoroughbred gelding, Mr. Beau, and her Argentine warmblood, Flynn, and my two adorable Portuguese water dogs, Chloe and Jack. Personal philosophy: perform small acts of kindness; smile at human folly; and luxuriate in life's many pleasures. |
| Interests | Theatre (especially 17th-century and modern), horses, gourmet food, cookbooks, dark bitter chocolate, good bordeaux, trying new recipes, hosting dinner parties, opera, travel abroad, hanging with my horsey girlfriends and having a beer after riding! |
| Favorite movies | Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu), The Godfather (Parts I and II), Bringing up Baby, Lawrence of Arabia, The Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), The Third Man, Wings of Desire, The Lady Eve, The Philadelphia Story, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Apartment, Jules and Jim, Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Quiet Man, Ninotchka |
| Favorite music | Anything baroque, operas by Puccini, musicals by Sondheim, 80's rock and roll, 50's jazz (especially Coltrane or Parker), Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, standards by Cole Porter |
| Favorite books | King Lear, Twelfth Night, Epicoene; or the Silent Woman, The Game of Love and Chance, The Cherry Orchard, The Way of the World, The Marriage of Figaro, Private Lives, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Homecoming, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Arcadia, Anna Karenina, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Middlemarch, The Master and Margarita, Clarissa, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Howard's End, The Sound and the Fury |