Deb Margolin is a playwright, actor, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of numerous plays, including Imagining Madoff, Critical Mass, Turquoise, and Bringing the Fishermen Home, as well as 10 solo performance plays which she has toured throughout the United States. Deb was honored with an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the Kesselring Playwrighting Prize for her play Three Seconds in the Key, the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award and the Richard H. Broadhead Prize for teaching excellence at Yale University, where she is Professor in the Practice in the undergraduate Theater Studies Program. Commissions include the Public Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, PS 122, The Jewish Museum of New York, and Dixon Place.