Deborah Chava Singer is a poet and playwright originally from San Diego, California where she studied truth with the Mesa College Theatre Company and created, published and performed with the Queer Players.  While going to school (in something else) in Toronto, Ontario she remembered what she really wanted most was to be a writer.  She currently resides in Vancouver, Washington. Her plays include: The Red Rose (OG Productions' 5th Annual St. James Tavern Valentine's Day Theatre Shorts Festival, Columbus, OH 2016) Bonnie and Claudia’s Attempted Toaster Oven Heist (Buffalo United Artists’ Take 10, Buffalo, NY 2015; LSU’s Theatre Dept’s Outworks Festival, Baton Rouge, LA 2011; StageQ’s Queer Shorts 5, Madison, WI 2010), Naughty or Nice: A Santa Scandal Update (ARFTCo’s  A Christmas Cocktail, Chicago IL 2014; ARFTCo’s Chicago Christmas Spectacular, 2009), Sweet Bitter (The Working Theatre Collective’s 20 Erotic Shorts: Trois, Portland, OR 2012), The First Good-bye (StageQ's Queer Shorts 4, Madison, WI 2009), He Sees You When You're Sleeping (ARFTCo’s Chicago Christmas Spectacular, Chicago, IL 2008), Reading the Numbers (play lab, Last Frontier Theatre Conference,Valdez, AK 2007), and Sweet Night, Last Morning (10-Minute Play Slam, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK 2007). Her writing has appeared in Chaffin, Cirque, Heart and Mind Zine, Snapdragon, Twisted Vine, Labletter, Off the Rocks, Rockhurst Review, Trajectory and Steam Ticket. She is the grateful recipient of a 2012 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) grant from Artist Trust to work on her play Hidden Potential, or the Straight Gene.