Deborah LaVine is an American theater and independent film director.
[1] Until being named dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, LaVine was director of the Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, California.
Select Los Angeles productions include Napoli Milionara at the Road Theater (Ovation award winner Outstanding Director and Best Production),[3] Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Theater Exchange, Deaf West Theatre’s Streetcar Named Desire (Ovation award Best Production),[4] Kindertransport starring Holland Taylor and Jane Kaczmarek at the Tiffany Theater,[5] Distant Fires at International City Theater (NAACP Image Award Citation for Excellence),[6] The Accomplices at the Fountain Theatre, and Edgemar Center for the Arts long running Black Cat Cabaret.
[7] LaVine directed a staged reading of Kindertransport at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles.
LaVine's short film, Unintended features Jeff Perry, a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and co-star of the television series, Scandal.